[Resolved] Quick Question?

What is the difference between a virus and spyware? Is the term virus a general term for all things nasty like malware, spyware, trojans? If i am wrong, please correct me.

Hi John Park,

Here you go. Just about everything you wanted to know about the differences. The page also contains links to the other terms you asked about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

http://forums.whatthetech.com/What_differe…re_t102251.html

Hope it helps.

Hey, thanks again for helping me Oldman960!

Hi John Park, You are welcome.

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