Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305971776
Author: Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 13, Problem 6RQ

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Difference between virus, worm, Trojan horse, and blended threat:

VirusWormTrojan horseBlended threat

A virus is a piece of code that changes the way the computer originally operates, without the user's knowledge. ?

A worm is a program that replicates itself from system to system without the use of a host file. ?

Trojan horse is an imposter file that claims to be something useful, but is a malware. ?

A blended threat is a type of exploit that uses multiple techniques like virus, worm, Trojan horse to attack a system. ?

Viruses generally consume the device memory and can cause data loss and system crash...

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