Why isn a Trojan a virus?
Viruses can also be Trojans, but Trojans are not viruses. Confused yet? So is much of the world, and with more and more viruses being released with Trojan components – a good example is the Iworm.Badtrans virus – the distinction gets harder to define all the time. Basically, to be a virus, there must be a replicating portion of code. Trojans do not replicate, ergo, they are not viruses. If they did replicate they would be viruses! I have heard it defined like this “Trojans are broken viruses”, however, I personally don’t like that definition. This is because many Trojans serve a different “purpose”; they are never written as viruses, because they don’t need to be. However, the most important thing to the person who has a Trojan or virus on their computer is not what it is called but how to get it off without losing all their precious data. iv. Why is it called a Trojan? A long time ago in a galaxy far far…oops, sorry wrong story. Well, anyway, a long time ago, a writer called Homer,
