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Computer Viruses Gregor Toschkoff A475979 Computer Viruses A Practical Work for the lecture Science Of The Internet Gregor Toschkoff A475979 Types of Viruses Apart from the medical meaning, in everyday nglish the word virus is used for all kinds of programs that may damage a computer. Technically a virus is a program with very specific properties, similar bit different programs are worms or Trojans. When somebody says virus he often means one of the following: Abbildung 1 Ebola- Virus Virus: A program that infects a file by implementing its own code into the file. Viruses always need this host file. Mostly the infected file is a program file, which may remain functional after the infection. When the program is started, the virus code is executed allowing it to copy itself to other files to spread. Older viruses infected the boot sector after being executed the first time, enabling it to be reloaded every time the computer is turned on. However, these viruses are fairly rare nowadays, as they are easy to catch. Macro-virus: A special type of virus that makes use of the build-in programming languages in popular programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. If an infected document is opened unwittingly, the Macro-Code is executed, enabling the viruses to duplicate themselves into other documents, to spread and to cause damage. Worms : A worm is characterised by the way it spreads