How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? - Printable Version -Shoutbox (https://shoutbox.menthix.net) +-- Forum: MsgHelp Archive (/forumdisplay.php?fid=58) +--- Forum: Skype & Technology (/forumdisplay.php?fid=9) +---- Forum: Tech Talk (/forumdisplay.php?fid=17) +----- Thread: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? (/showthread.php?tid=65617) How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by albert on 08-30-2006 at 06:10 PM
Here's a question which will probably seem dull for most of the advanced people here, but it's something I need to find out for my informatic class, and until here this is what I got : RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by cloudhunter on 08-30-2006 at 06:14 PM
A worms main task is to duplicate itself as much as possible, and onto as many systems as possible, either using vunerabilities or by email. RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by kao on 08-30-2006 at 06:28 PM
Virus: RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by .Roy on 08-31-2006 at 02:39 PM
A virus like in real life attaches itself to your cells in this case computer programs etc... RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by ~INVASION~ on 08-31-2006 at 02:43 PM
reminds me of bio class RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by CookieRevised on 08-31-2006 at 03:35 PM
quote:That definition is not complete. A worm is afterall a form of a virus. So it is also a virus. What a worm also does, and which isn't in the definition, is that it mostly tries to spread thru external connections (eg: email, open ports, etc), while a plane standard virus stays local and only infects files on your own computer. RE: How Do You Recognize A Virus From A Worm? by DJeX on 08-31-2006 at 07:30 PM
quote: DAMN you beat me to it. |