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Name: Wolfgang Maier
Date: September 6, 2002 at 03:02:44 Pacific
Subject: Question OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: 512
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Comment: Hi there. Could anybody explain me the difference between a virus and a worm? And what's a bot? Greetings..
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Name: DaveStL
Date: September 6, 2002 at 07:32:15 Pacific
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Reply: Simply, a virus is code that can do something, usually undesireable, to your computer system without your consent or knowledge. A worm is code (often but not always a virus) that spreads itself. A bot (robot, spider, crawler) is code that travels the Internet, generally gathering information. Search engines use bots to maintain their databases. Bots are also used by spammers to harvest email addresses from web sites. For brief descriptions of these and other terms, visit Whatis.
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Name: Tommy Robertson
Date: September 6, 2002 at 08:59:26 Pacific
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Reply: I have just intercepted document totally accidentally that gave me the ultra login of a user and the Password a welcome to linux 3.2.1 and the last login entry as well as the body of the message security problem or what oh! and also I had to use this notice board to actually send you this message not a great advert should have some way of e-mailing you instead
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Name: suzi
Date: September 6, 2002 at 15:35:02 Pacific
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Reply: Tommy, Your post is not clear to me. If you have a question, you should start a new thread, not add to an existing one. That way more people will read your post and be able to help you.
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