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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.
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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