On April 22, 2005 11:06, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > You should know better. Viruses, like their biological counterparts are > pieces of code that cause random damage...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...
*actually* (he says in his best hollywood-version-of-an-english-accent), the difference between a virus and a worm has to do with propagation techniques. a virus spreads file-to-file, a worm spreads over the network machine-to-machine. -- Aaron J. Seigo Society is Geometric
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