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Great explaintions guys, lemme see if I got it

A hacker is someone who knows (computer) systems well enough to manipulate them. The extremes might be a 12 yr old figuring out how to get the password to the parental blocks on a r rated movie to someone who reads code well enough to expose sensitive information like account numbers and such.
How he uses this ability isn't what makes him a hacker, it's the ability itself.

the Black/Grey/White Hat separation is the same as in society ie bad guy, neutral guy and good guy

So that means that when I got my first virus, I wasn't reallt 'hacked' beccause I wasn't directly targeted. In was just somewhere where this bug was and was vulnerable. Sure someone built/wrote it with the bad intent ( it was called security protection by the way), but nobody directed anything at me in particular, I kinda just caught a bad cold, so to speak. Does that sound right?

If so when I got mad I looked around my computer for recently changed or new files and deleted a bunch of stuff, almost anything the computer would allow. I also found something that I think was called open file location and deleted that file along with it's shortcut.

And it was clean, did I hack?

Maybe I didn't get the whole thing, because it came back and wouldn't leave until I got a scan from MS.

But that was kin of a hack too, yes?