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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter
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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

by Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
302 pages
7h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Viruses

A virus is a malicious piece of code that is designed to cause harm to a system, such as a computer. Viruses are not executed on their own usually but require the action of a person; this action can be done by simply clicking or running a virus-infected file, which will trigger the malicious code execution.

A notable type of virus is known as the worm. A worm is a self-replicating virus that can propagate throughout a network without any assistance from humans.

Imagine creating a program that can self-replicate without user interaction and overwhelm system resources so much that a worm-infected system becomes almost, if not completely, unusable. Once a worm virus has been created and its self-replicating process is triggered, disinfecting ...

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