Virus Worm Trojan Horse

virus infects an worm is a stand-alone program.

executable file
virus requires human worm propagates automatically
action to propagate
A virus is a manmade Computer Worms are viruses A Trojan horse program is a
program or piece of code that reside in the active memory malicious program that pretends
that causes an of a computer and duplicate to be a benign application; a
unexpected, usually themselves. They may send Trojan horse program
negative, event. Viruses copies of themselves to other purposefully does something the
are often disguised computers, such as through user does not expect. Trojans are
games or images email or Internet Relay Chat not viruses since they do not
(IRC). replicate, but Trojan horse
programs can be just as
destructive.