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Protect Your Computer: Worms and Viruses Explained

Learn about computer worms and viruses, their differences, and how Trojan horses and stealth viruses work. Discover how to defend against piggybacking threats like boot sector viruses.

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Protect Your Computer: Worms and Viruses Explained

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  1. Chase .F, Elton .D Worms and Viruses on a computer.

  2. Computer Worm An independent program that multiplies itself by copying a segment.

  3. Computer Virus A malicous computer program created by a user with objectives to harm or steal another `s property.

  4. Network and Host worm • The network worm copies different segments of it self to computers.Host worm is a worm that copies itself to another network then deletes itself from previous computer.

  5. Difference of worms and viruses • The difference is a worm can be active all the time and a computer virus is only active when the host is active.

  6. Trojan Horse • A trojan horse is a malicious program disguised inside another program that seems harmless.

  7. Stealth Virus • A virus in which if anyone attempted to view an infected sector,the virus would replace it with the clean,original version of the sector.

  8. Boot Sector Virus • A virus that copies itself onto a computer off of a disk when the computer is booted up when someone else inserts a disk into the computer. The virus is downloaded.

  9. Piggybacking • Theactof a computervirusattaching itself to another program

  10. Reference Google.com/Computer worm pictures Google.com/computer virus pictures Google.com/Network and host worm pictures. Google.com/differences of worms and virus pictures. Google.com/trojan horse pictures Google.com/Stealth Virus pictures Google.com/Boot sector virus pictures Google.com/piggybacking pictures.

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