Types of viruses, worm, t-horses?

can any one please define these in none technical terms:

Computer Virus

Worm

Trojan horse

Types of computer viruses

Macro virus

network virus

logic bomb

sentinels

boot sector virus

Types of viruses, worm, t-horses?norton antivirus

in non technical terms... all of those things you've mentioned are malicious programs or malicious code inserted into a program.

That's all a virus is... a programmed thing like any application that does something malicious like destroying files instead of creating them.

A logic bomb is a virus that has a specific time which it will kick off.

A worm is a virus that self propogates itself on the network.

A boot sector virus infects the boot sector which is the sector on the harddrive where the information is kept that tells the computer how to boot up.

a macro virus infects macros in word which are little scripts within the MS Word program

A trojan horse is a legitimate program (like Notepad) that has had another program inserted into it to run at the same time.. this second program does something malicious.

There's no such thing as malware called sentinels...

I would suggest you go to wikipedia in the future for definitions instead of help.

Good Luck

Types of viruses, worm, t-horses?security

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/...

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/worm.htm...

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Trojan_h...

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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDe...

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/tutorials/...

http://www.tech-faq.com/logic-bomb.shtml

http://www.marvel.com/universe/Sentinels

http://www.ts.vcu.edu/faq/virus/virus_bo...
AH! forensic defined it well.