Yes it can be both. A virus that fools the system into thinking it is supposed to be there would be both a Trojan and a virus.
OSes tend not to check themselves; that's the job of anti-malware products. If a virus manages to fool an anti-malware check into thinking that it should be there, it's a clever virus but it's not a Trojan. The point of a Trojan is that it looks attractive to the user and that is how it gets onto the system in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Maximara
Another example was the Hypercard "Font Preview" posted to comp.sys.mac.hypercard in 2000 which contained the virus Hypercard Wormcode.
A Trojan could contain a virus but it wouldn't be a virus itself.
Just read the wikipedia entries for Trojan, virus and worm; they do a better job of explaining this than I can.
I agree about MS Office for Mac. It feels as though they did the minimum necessary to get everything running on OS X and brought a lot of baggage along with them.
However, I disagree about all Windows software being slow and cumbersome. That's a bit over the top. The world, for the most part, still get stuff done with Windows, and there are several areas where Windows is the best OS (such as multitasking performance) over all but the mainframe OS.
Let's stick to fair and true assessments. OS X is still far ahead, but you don't need to distort reality.
I would be hard pressed to find ONE area where Windows wins. OK, gaming is clearly Windows turf, but I would rather buy a Nintendo Wii (and in fact I have). Another one is if you want to interface with data acquisition boards which do not yet have support for Macs.
For instance, I work with an engineering research and development company. I myself do high end scientific computation. Do you know what computer I use for heavy number crunching? A macbook pro 2008 model. Not even a Mac Pro! What do I use for word processing? Pages. I don't care how many other people use Word or open office. I just save as Word from Pages and by not using Word or open office I save days of work (not to mention pain and suffering that comes with working in Word) in every document I produce.
I recommend Avira Antivir. I use the paid version on my Vista laptop. Once I moved from Norton 360 to Avira, the machine's performance increased by about 10-15% at least. Avira's scanning is better and you can see the results on the test websites.
I recommend Avira Antivir. I use the paid version on my Vista laptop. Once I moved from Norton 360 to Avira, the machine's performance increased by about 10-15% at least. Avira's scanning is better and you can see the results on the test websites.
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Yes it can be both. A virus that fools the system into thinking it is supposed to be there would be both a Trojan and a virus.
OSes tend not to check themselves; that's the job of anti-malware products. If a virus manages to fool an anti-malware check into thinking that it should be there, it's a clever virus but it's not a Trojan. The point of a Trojan is that it looks attractive to the user and that is how it gets onto the system in the first place.
Another example was the Hypercard "Font Preview" posted to comp.sys.mac.hypercard in 2000 which contained the virus Hypercard Wormcode.
A Trojan could contain a virus but it wouldn't be a virus itself.
Just read the wikipedia entries for Trojan, virus and worm; they do a better job of explaining this than I can.
I agree about MS Office for Mac. It feels as though they did the minimum necessary to get everything running on OS X and brought a lot of baggage along with them.
However, I disagree about all Windows software being slow and cumbersome. That's a bit over the top. The world, for the most part, still get stuff done with Windows, and there are several areas where Windows is the best OS (such as multitasking performance) over all but the mainframe OS.
Let's stick to fair and true assessments. OS X is still far ahead, but you don't need to distort reality.
I would be hard pressed to find ONE area where Windows wins. OK, gaming is clearly Windows turf, but I would rather buy a Nintendo Wii (and in fact I have). Another one is if you want to interface with data acquisition boards which do not yet have support for Macs.
For instance, I work with an engineering research and development company. I myself do high end scientific computation. Do you know what computer I use for heavy number crunching? A macbook pro 2008 model. Not even a Mac Pro! What do I use for word processing? Pages. I don't care how many other people use Word or open office. I just save as Word from Pages and by not using Word or open office I save days of work (not to mention pain and suffering that comes with working in Word) in every document I produce.
I recommend Avira Antivir. I use the paid version on my Vista laptop. Once I moved from Norton 360 to Avira, the machine's performance increased by about 10-15% at least. Avira's scanning is better and you can see the results on the test websites.
I recommend to you all Leopard as your antivirus.