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What Do You Know About Viruses And Other Malware?

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    Viruses & Malware: The virus in simple words can be defined as the program that is executed without user's informed consent and damages the computer system in different way e.g. damaging the files, directory or even can crash the operating system as well.
    The malware is the broader term as compared to the virus and one can say that the virus is the outcome of the malware, the software is considered malware based on the perceived intent of its creator.

    The malware covers many unwanted programs such as Viruses, Worm, Trojan horses, adware, spyware etc. The new terminology for malware is the badware, but generally the people use the word virus for all kind of malware, which is technically not correct because each malware has its own goals e.g. the virus replicates it self mostly present in executable form the Trojan are the kind of program that appears legitimate but actually it perform illicit activities collects sensitive information such as Passwords or can make the system vulnerable for future entries or it can even destroy the program on the harddrive as well the main different in Trojan and virus is that the Trojan doesn't replicates itself, as far as the worms are concerned basically they effect the network and consumes the bandwidth.
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    Mindreader 

    answered 3 years ago

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      Nae779 

      answered 3 years ago

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