Question

A piece of malware that appears to be useful, but actually causes damage to the system or allows another to gain access to the system is called

Answer 1

Answer:

Malware" is short for malicious software and used as a single term to refer tovirus, spy ware, worm etc. Malware is designed to cause damage to a stand alone computer or a networked pc. So wherever a malware term is used it means a program which is designed to damage your computer it may be a virus,worm or Trojan....

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Answer 2

Explanation:

An important distinction between computer viruses and worms is that viruses require an active host program or an already-infected and active operating system in order for viruses to run, cause damage and infect other executable files or documents, while worms are stand-alone malicious programs that can self-replicate .