if your talking about the cell then they can be any shape
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Viruses come in a variety of shapes from small round ball to spaghetti like strands. Viruses are also seen as geometric shapes, rods and bullet like shapes.
a sphere, spiral and a rod
Viruses have different geometrical shapes, such as helical and polyhedral shapes. A particular polyhedral shape common to many viruses is a dodecahedron shape. This is a geometric shape that has 12 sides.
For computer viruses, they have no physical shape, they are a string or program of codes that are made to effect files Regular viruses have a shape, but they are not needed as they dont effect what they do. Viruses just look like any bacterium, or in a spiderlike form.
Viruses have four main shapes: 1. spherical (like a ball) 2. helical (like a corkscrew or a spring) 3. Icosahedron (a twenty-sided shape kind of like two prisms glued together) 4. Bacteriophage (an icosahedron head and a spider-like tail)
THere are many Different shapes and sizes of Virus' ... See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus