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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by withinboredom on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:09PM (#24756667)
They mention in the article how it spreads via emails not via exploits (in which it would be called a worm, not malware).
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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by saghm on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:20PM (#24756799)
Isn't a worm just a type of malware? Wikipedia describes malware as "any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network".
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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by Talanes on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:44PM (#24758622)
Seconded, I've always understood malware to be a broad categorization and not a specific type of attack.
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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by withinboredom on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:46PM (#24759259)
I'd always assumed that malware was malicious software disguised as something else; the layman term for trojan. TIL that it's much more generic than that.
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