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Back in the days viruses had to hide themselves in executables to travel from machine to machine, undetected. Today, as most users don't care about what proces
by gregschlom 16y ago
Back in the days viruses had to hide themselves in executables to travel from machine to machine, undetected.
Today, as most users don't care about what processes are running on their system, and since the most common vector of infection is through the internet, what we call "viruses" are actually worms: they don't infect other programs, they are just self-replicating, malicious, executables.
- nitrogen 16y agoIt's a shame that your parent comment isn't getting any up-votes, as your comment is informative enough to deserve a higher place on the page.
- axod 16y agoolder school: boot sector viruses which triggered when an infected floppy was left in a machine on bootup. They'd then TSR and infect any other floppys inserted into the machine, as well as any hard disk drives if the machine was an expensive newer model with a hard card.