Along with the general principles we will also focus on virus development principles in Java.

Definitions & Concepts

Malware Types

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of definitions.

Virus

Worm

Trojan

Bots

Virus parts

Infection vector

Trigger

Payload

References & Further reading

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108155304/https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/resources/virus_differences

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Early_academic_work_on_self-replicating_programs

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