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Malware is short for malicious software and used as a single term to refer to virus, spy ware, worm etc. Malware is designed to cause damage to a stand alone computer or a networked pc. So wherever a malware term is used it means a program which is designed to damage your computer it may be a virus, worm or Trojan. Worms:-. Worms are malicious programs that make copies of themselves again and again on the local drive, network shares, etc.
Spyware. 1. Spyware is a term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on a computer by to monitor what other users of the same computer are doing. 2. A term used to describe a software program that has been designed to secretly gather information about a user's activity.