Strictly speaking, a virus is a program that can't survive on its own; it's a program that installs itself as a parasite of another program to multiply and carry out sinister actions.
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Strictly speaking, a virus is a program that can't survive on its own; it's a program that installs itself as a parasite of another program to multiply and carry out sinister actions.
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Spyware is malicious software that installs itself on a computer to collect and transfer information about its environment, most often without the user's knowledge.
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