he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected . ] — THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000

[he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected . ]

2 [he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected . ] Explanation . – For the purposes of this section,– (i) " computer contaminant " means any set of computer instructions that are designed– (a) to modify, destroy, record, transmit data or programme residing within a computer, computer system or computer network; or (b) by any means to usurp the normal operation of the computer, computer system, or computer network; (ii) " computer data-base " means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions in text, image, audio, video that are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner or have been produced by a computer, computer system or computer network and are intended for use in a computer, computer system or computer network; (iii) " computer virus " means any computer instruction, information, data or programme that destroys, damages, degrades or adversely affects the performance of a computer resource or attaches itself to another computer resource and operates when a programme, data or instruction is executed or some other event takes place in that computer resource; (iv) " damage " means to destroy, alter, delete, add, modify or rearrange any computer resource by any means.

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