What do you call a deliberately harmful software that replicates itself by moving from one program or storage device to another?

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7 Jun 2017
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A virus is a malicious program designed to replicate by infecting other programs or storage media. Unlike Trojan horses, which disguise themselves as legitimate software, viruses spread by copying their code to other files or disks. Logic bombs and timed bombs activate under specific conditions but do not self-replicate.

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