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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 :

1- A Virus is going to "fuck up" other files, yet a worm only needs himself to be able to cause the intented damage.

As stupid as this sounds that's the only thing I got.. How else can I differ them without looking at virus or worm site that will tell me what is which? Like if I'm ona computer and I know I got a dangerous file, how can I know which is it?

Any help is really appreciated.

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.

Cloudy

Edit: You can't tell them apart just by looking at the file...

Virus:


Worm:

A virus like in real life attaches itself to your cells in this case computer programs etc...

A worm just works alone, you dont find it attached to a file or anything, its a file itself that damages your computer.

me thinks.

reminds me of bio class

everything being explained about human viruses and sicknesses always seemed to be able to translate just as well to computers, made me laugh from time to time haha

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Originally posted by alby
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 :

1- A Virus is going to "fuck up" other files, yet a worm only needs himself to be able to cause the intented damage.

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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.

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Originally posted by kao
Virus:


Worm:

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DAMN you beat me to it.