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What is the main difference between a virus and a trojan?

Asked by Anil Jha Feb 25, 2022 623 views 1 answer
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To my current understanding:

A virus is a program that does not self replicate and relies on the host file being spread. It has malicious intent. A trojan is a program that is run by deceiving the user into appearing to be something legitimate, but has malicious intent.

How are these different? To get a user to install a virus doesn't it always require appearing as something legitimate?


Or does a trojan program run as expected so for example if it was a game it would work fine but have done something malicious without the user knowing, whereas a virus wouldn't?

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