Question

What is the difference between computer worm and computer virus?

Answer 1

Answer:

Difference between computer worm and computer virus.

Explanation:

Computer Virus:

1) The computer virus attaches itself to the OS or the programs.

2) User action is needed.

3) Damage is mostly to the local machine.

4) The computer viruses spread quite slowly.

Computer Worms:

1) The Computer worms did not attach itself to the OS.

2) Itself propagate across a network exploiting security widely used services.

3) Harm to the network and consume network bandwidth.

4) The Computer worms spread much more rapidly.

Answer 2

• Computer virus is a type of program written to alter the way a computer operates and is designed to spread from one computer to another.
• It is an optical storage technology that allows a disk to be written only once but to read and unlimited number of time