| Vulnerability Details | Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network access to intrude upon organizations, destroying or stealing data.
A Backdoor Trojan is a malicious application that opens a backdoor to a system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing remote access to a computer, obtaining access to plaintext, and so on, while attempting to remain undetected. The backdoor may take the form of an installed program or could be a modification to an existing program.
Tricklers are software designed to download and install malicious applications by running silently in the background to be less noticeable. Tricklers are typically used to install a spyware programs onto the victim's machine.
A Trojan horse is a program that installs malicious software while under the guise of doing something else. Trojans are known for installing backdoor programs which allow unauthorized non permissible remote access to the victim's machine by unwanted parties with malicious intentions.
Worms are malicious programs that spread themselves without any user intervention and have a self-replicating behavior. A Worm may consume a large amount of system resources and cause the machine to become unreliable. Moreover, some Worms may be used to compromise infected machines and download additional malicious software. |
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