Simply a Virus is one of a range of computer infections that are now covered by the over-arching term Malware. You see in the early days of computing, there were only viruses but over the years the types of infections are categorised by what they attempt to achieve. The term malware refers to any malicious software installed on a machine to cause damage, gain access to data or scare users into paying for something that they don’t necessarily need or want.
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