Phrasal Verbs

PHRASAL VERBS
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Complete the gaps using the phrasal verbs below

I’ve always admired people who can write programs for computers; they can make a box full ofsilicon and circuits ‘come to life’ and do wonderful, useful and often entertaining things for us. Of course, not all programmers use their skills in socially acceptable ways – there are many illegal‘cracks’ available on the Internet that enable people to use expensive software for free. Although I cannot condone this, I can understand why it is done; the programmer might believe he or she issaving money, or might be motivated by a particular social or political opinion. However, the group of programmers I really cannot understand, or admire, is virus writers. Why do they do it?
Clearly,someone who has spent a long time learning how to write programs, and who gains pleasure from it, is not motivated by a dislike of computers. Yet the viruses they write either damage computers, orrestrict our ability to use them effectively. I wonder how they feel when their computer is affected by a virus. Does it [pic]them [pic]as much as it [pic]the rest of us?
Because the virus writers remainanonymous, they are probably not just [pic]; it’s the virus itself that becomes famous, or infamous, rather than the writer. Perhaps it is enough for these people that they know who wrote the virus,but it is a very strange thing to be proud of, even secretly. Viruses affect people randomly. Once a virus has been [pic], there is no way of predicting who will get it. It might infect your bestfriend’s computer, or the networks of hospitals and charities.
In fact, I can only think of 2 ‘positive’ consequences of computer viruses, and they are not very convincing. The first is that they forceus to [pic]our important data. Of course, we should be doing this anyway, but many of us seem to need this ‘extra encouragement’. The second consequence is that it creates work and profit for...