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What is the difference between a Computer Virus and a Computer Trojan horse?
By admin | October 15, 2010
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Help!: What is the difference between a Computer Virus and a Computer Trojan horse?
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What is the difference between them and which is more harmful?
The following is the answer:
Answer by Derek
The primary definition of a Trojan horse is that it hides amongst legitimate files or even masquarades as one, and some event triggers its activation such as an action by the user or by reaching a programmed date.
After that, it can become a virus if it’s been written as such, most often corrupting or destroying files. It can also become a worm replicating itself and eventually locking up system resources, it can act like spyware by monitoring and saving a history of user activity, or the action can be as benign as playing a audio file of the Star-Spangled Banner on the Fourth of July.
The point is anything can be hidden inside a Trojan horse. All of these are considered to be MALWARE regardless of how malevalent or benign the payload is.
Answer by Dull Jon
A virus is something that worms its way in, a trojan horse is slipped in under the guise of something else so that you’ll execute the virused code. The trojan horse then makes a tunnel back to whoever sent it.
Answer by vytorious
A trojan horse opens a hole for hackers to take control of your system. A virus is a program that executes and causes various results
Answer by Kal
A virus generally just destroys or corrupts you system files. A Trojan, in most cases, will log your information and send it back to the author.
Answer by interlude
definition of a virus is any program that replicates itself. that’s it! most people misunderstand this.
trojan horse is typically a program that cannot replicate itself and is sent to the victims computer acting as something else. bascially a program that leaves a smaller copy of a malicious code that typically sends data back to the host (some server out there in the internet) or leaves a hole for the hacker to get in.
Answer by Danny42378
A Trojan horse installs malicious code on a computer under the guise of doing something else (like offering some game you want to play). A virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without a user knowing it, but that can not self proliferate (requires some user transport).
A worm is a malicious computer program that can self replicate to other hosts.
There is certainly some overlap in the definitions, but they are intended to classify three different behavioral characteristics of malware or malicious software.
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