If you are making a risk evaluation based on the generic term someone else uses to describe a threat, you've already lost. The genie is out of the bottle and t

If you are making a risk evaluation based on the generic term someone else uses to describe a threat, you've already lost. The genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back - virus, malware, worm, trojan, etc. are all interchangeable marketing terms now.