Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
Trever, You should know better. Viruses, like their biological
counterparts are pieces of code that cause random damage...
I think you missed this bit from my original post :
Most people tend to lump worms in with virii
And in fact, an awful lot of stuff is multivector these days. There is
not really any plain-jane-simple-virus these days. You've got stuff
that finds multiple remote explots, gets in, inserts stuff into IIS that
would then infect some random IE-using visitor's pc, and so forth.
Worms, on the other hand are more sophisticated entities, whose main
goal may or may not be to cause damage, but rather gain access to a
system...
Mmm, more like their main purpose is to create bot nets that the bot
controller can then sell the services thereof to spammers. Zillions of
spam comes from these bot nets now aways. They're also used to target
online casinos and betting establishments and thereby blackmail them
into paying a "leave us alone" fee.
Organized crime (spam, extortion) is more the order of the day now.
Treer
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Trever Miller
Cyberdex Systems Consulting Corp.
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