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Viruses are categorized by how they infect computers. Some viruses fall into more than one of these categories.
Types of viruses include:
- Polymorphic Viruses – Polymorphic viruses change characteristics as they infect a computer.
- Stealth Viruses - Stealth viruses actively try to hide themselves from anti-virus and system software.
- Fast and Slow Infectors - Fast and Slow viruses infect a computer in a particular way to try to avoid being detected by anti-virus software.
- Sparse Infectors – Sparse Infectors don’t infect very often.
- Armored Viruses – Armored viruses are programmed to make eradication difficult.
- Multipartite Viruses – Multipartite Viruses are viruses that may fall into more than one of these categories.
- Cavity (Spacefiller) Viruses – Cavity (Spacefiller) viruses attempt to maintain a constant file size when infecting a computer in order to try to avoid detection.
- Tunneling Viruses – Tunneling viruses try to “tunnel” under anti-virus software while infecting.
- Camouflage Viruses – Camouflage viruses attempt to appear as a benign program.
- Virus Droppers – Virus Droppers are a special category of programs that place viruses on computers but are not by themselves an actual virus.
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