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Thread ID: 123946 2012-03-27 20:05:00 Difference between Malware and Virus ? Nhashon (16466) Press F1
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1267123 2012-03-27 20:05:00 I want to know whats the difference between virus and malware , and now days whats the most poluar between these two????/ Nhashon (16466)
1267124 2012-03-27 20:31:00 The-difference-between-viruses-trojans-worms-and-other-malware (lifehacker.com) Happy reading :) wainuitech (129)
1267125 2012-03-27 20:37:00 Check out this website.
answers.yahoo.com
Nick G (16709)
1267126 2012-03-27 21:34:00 Spyware tends to be more common these days... pctek (84)
1267127 2012-03-28 21:51:00 Who wants popular spyware or virus or malware ?

But I know what the poster means!
Digby (677)
1267128 2012-03-28 22:21:00 Who wants popular spyware or virus or malware ?

But I know what the poster means!

It's so much better to be in the popular crowd and get hit with all the latest and most popular spyware, the unpopular ones are just so last year :lol::lol:
gary67 (56)
1267129 2012-03-29 21:31:00 They are both the same.Malware is a makeup of the two words malicious software Pancake (6359)
1267130 2012-03-29 22:13:00 They are not the same, read the link Wainui posted.
The principle difference I think is Virus's (Virii? ) are designed to self replicate and spread whereas malware generally needs human assistance to install - even if it's just clicking a link.

If I wrote a batch file called clickmeplease.bat that executed delete c:\*.* that would be malware. If I was smarter and wrote code to detect any inserted or networked drives and write a copy of itself onto them, that would be a virus.
dugimodo (138)
1267131 2012-03-29 22:16:00 Malware is a collective name for all of them.Thats what I am saying. Pancake (6359)
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