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The document discusses various types of malware including viruses, worms, and adware. Viruses replicate by attaching to programs, while worms are network-aware and can spread across computers without attaching to programs. Adware, although not strictly malicious, invades user privacy by displaying targeted ads and can potentially embed harmful code.

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The document discusses various types of malware including viruses, worms, and adware. Viruses replicate by attaching to programs, while worms are network-aware and can spread across computers without attaching to programs. Adware, although not strictly malicious, invades user privacy by displaying targeted ads and can potentially embed harmful code.

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Virus: They have the ability to replicate themselves by hooking them to the program on the

host computer like songs, videos etc and then they travel all over the Internet.

ILOVEYOU Melissa Michelangelo

CIH (Chernobyl) Sasser Nimda

Stuxnet Zeus CryptoLocker


Worms: are also self-replicating in nature but they don’t hook themselves to the program on
host computer. Biggest difference between virus and worms is that worms are network-aware.
They can easily travel from one computer to another if network is available and on the target
machine they will not do much harm, they will, for example, consume hard disk space thus
slowing down the computer.

Morris Worm Blaster Worm SQL Slammer

Code Red Storm Worm Mydoom


Adware: is not exactly malicious but they do breach privacy of the users. They display ads on a
computer’s desktop or inside individual programs. They come attached with free-to-use
software, thus main source of revenue for such developers. They monitor your interests and
display relevant ads. An attacker can embed malicious code inside the software and adware can
monitor your system activities and can even compromise your machine.

Gator Fireball CoolWebSearch

DeskAd MySearchDial Superfish

"Threats to Information Security - GeeksforGeeks" https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/threats-to-


information-security/

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