marc on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:20:14 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] worms vs viruses


Correct!

> So the difference is that a worm is a special virus that knows how to
> operate over networks?  Or...
>
> We could say that a virus propagates to new programs (which may or may not
> be copied to new computers), and a worm propagates to new computers on a
> network over network connections....
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
>
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