And Viruses are just one type of malware.The ways you can get malware vary, and many of them require you to download something and run it. It says that viruses is NOT actually the name for all the harmful programs that get run on people's computers-actually, the name for those programs is malware. Any program that does bad stuff on your computer is malware."Although many people think of all unwanted, damaging, and invasive programs as “viruses” the definition of these attacking programs has become refined into several different categories and the umbrella term for these damaging programs is “malware.”Malware types include viruses, worms, Trojans, remote access Trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware, ransomware and botware."This quote doesn't say that malware is another name for viruses. So are trojans, rootkits, spyware, etc.Those other forms of malware can't just spread around to other executables on your system (and run when you run those executables).The articles you (nizmoz) linked to mention viruses in their titles, but while the specific examples they give are all malware, none of them are viruses (i.e., a program that can copy its bad parts into another program so it can be further spread). You do still have to watch out for other forms of malware, but unlike viruses, you would only get those by downloading and running them yourself.
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