Computer worms and viruses pose a clear and present danger for corporate and public information security in that as time and technology progress, the damaging effects this "malware" has on the network increases. Throughout this paper the term "malware" is used to define software that damages your system, causes instability, or exhibits antisocial behavior such as changing settings or interfering with a computer's registry and security settings. Typical examples include computer viruses or worms.
Viruses are computer programs or scripts that attempt to spread from one file to another on a single computer and/or from one computer to another, using a variety of methods, without the knowledge and consent of the computer user. A worm is a specific type of virus that propagates itself across many computers, usually by creating copies of itself in each computer's memory. Many users define viruses simply as trick programs designed to delete or move hard drive data, which, strictly......
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