Can an internet connection get a virus?

[Billy]

A virus may attempt to move to other connected computers through the internet connection or other network connections, but the connection in and of itself is not equipment that can be infected. If you use a server as a router, that can be infected however.

There can be special built viruses for infecting various pieces of usually non-infectible equipment, these usually are targeted and require specific security holes to operate, so unless your running corporation this is highly unlikely. An example of one of these would be if it were to trick the router into "updating" to its firmware, usually by tricking it into thinking its a trusted connection or by placing a different server between the router and its update source.

To reiterate, it cannot infect an 'internet connection' in and of itself, because it is not a piece of equipment. The computers utilizing the connection (on either side) or (in some cases) the router or modem that sustains the connection can be 'infected'.

Hope that helps