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Malware is any software (program) designed to cause problems. A virus is a type of malware that attaches itself to other programs and sends itself to others. Other types of malware include worms, which are like viruses, but they run without attaching to another program, and trojans, which are downloaded by the user with the promise of doing something useful.

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