Virus Guy wrote on 11/6/2014 :
> B00ze/Empire wrote:
>  
>> Three quarters of infections were trojans while only 9 percent were
>> viruses and 4 percent worms.
>
> What the hell is the point of creating viruses these days?
>
> A virus is worthless unless it allows remote access, remote control or
> remote code execution on the infected machine.
>
> Isin't the point of getting your code on a target machine to be able to
> do something with the machine?  Like use it as part of a botnet, or
> extract info from it?  Something that a virus is technically not going
> to do for you, because if it does it wouldn't be called a virus - it
> would be called a trojan?

I like to think of worms and viruses as distribution methods for 
malicious payloads. They aren't 'virus' or 'worm' because of their 
payload, it's because of how they propagate. Because they can take 
additional code with them when they replicate, they make excellent 
carriers of malicious payloads.


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