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Cheese Worm: Pros and Cons of a Friendly Worm


{LANG_NAVORIGIN} Malicious Code Worms
04/15/2004



Malware is the current name for all of those ruthless pieces of code that are currently infecting various machines around the world. Malware consists of two different types of infections. The first is the virus. According to Symantec Anti Virus Research Center1 (SARC), a virus is a computer program that is designed to spread itself from one file to another on a single computer. It does not try to spread itself to other computers. Viruses are typically spread by users trading files or sending emails to each other. The second type of malware is what is known as a worm. A worm, unlike a virus, tries to spread to other computers without human intervention.

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