Week 12

This week in computer hardware and software management we discussed tips to have a strong safe password as well as the common myths associated with your passwords that specific link did not seem to work this week.  We also discussed the differences between trojans, viruses, and worms.  Worms are considered as sub species of viruses that spread without the input of the creator from computer to computer via means of contact within your computer an example used in the reading was through your email address book uploading and sending the worm through the email to your friends or family.  Next you have the trojan horse which is like its moniker is a type of virus disguised as something else in this case normally some useful software or an existing software but not from the legitimate source.   A computer virus in general is like a human virus it spreads from computer to computer except it uses your computers files to spread it generally uses an executable to initially infect your computer.