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What are viruses and malware?

Updated: 9/27/2023
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instructions meant to do harm

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'Malware' is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software, including Computer Viruses, worms, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other malicious programs A computer virus is a malware program that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computerprograms

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