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Is a Virus a Worm ?

Are you often puzzled with the references to Virus and Worms ?

Well if I can I will endeavour to explain in simple terms their differences. However, having said that Worms are often lumped in with viruses, fortunately your antivirus software should stop either one.

Viruses

These are self-replicating programs that embed themselves into other programs, or even the operating system, and use the host to carry out its function.

It can attach itself to an E-mail, if it doesn’t a virus stays put on the victim's computer.

A Worm

This is also a computer program that makes copies of itself. They spread from computer to computer (instead of file to file), infecting whole systems, and in the process using up resources in the affected computer, and causing untold damage.

Worms penetrate the computer's memory from a network, they can find network addresses of other computers, and then send their own copies to these new addresses.

Once launched, a Worm can E-mail itself to everyone in an address book or launch a Trojan horse.

Summary :-

Viruses generally stay put.

Worms are designed to spread out to as many computers as it possibly can.

Worms take over your computer while viruses destroy files.

Irrespective of the differences, they are both destructive to your system  