How dose the viruses work?

Question: How dose the viruses work?
- Keywords:
  microbe,
  research project,
  virus
Asked by united brothers 123 to Ruth on 22 Jun 2015.
- Ruth Elderfield answered on 22 Jun 2015:
  
  Viruses work by infecting animals, people, bacteria, plants and even other viruses, then the steal the energy and bits of the host cells to make new viruses using the machinery in the host cell. Very cheeky.

Question: How dose the viruses work?