What is a virus?
-A virus is a piece of programming code designed with harmful intent.
-A virus can change your windows settings or erase your entire hard disk.
-Viruses can be transmitted as an email attachment, an Internet download,
or be present on a CD or floppy disk .
-Computer users usually open viruses and transmit them, while they do not know .
What is a Trojan horse?
-A Trojan horse is a special type of virus, seemingly harmless program in which harmful code is contained.
-It can gain control of your computer and do some serious damage, .
such as ruining your hard disk.
What is a worm?
-A special type of virus, that is a selfreproducing program.
While it does not infect other programs, it creates multiple copies of itself.
-These copies create more copies so systems become overloaded and simply shut down.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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