What are the different types of computer viruses?

Answer by  Randy998 (226)

The main two types of computer viruses are Viruses and Trojans. Viruses infect the files on your computer, trojans are more for reading what you type on the keyboard.

Answer by  Swift (108)

Computer viruses are divided into Resident viruses, Direct action viruses, Overwrite viruses, Boot viruses, Macro viruses, Directory viruses, Polymorphic viruses, File infectors, FAT viruses, Trojans, Worms, Logic bombs, Companion viruses.

Answer by  alexdamian (192)

There are many types of computer viruses. Some of them are worms and travel through the Internet (especially email); others are called trojans and simply slow your system down.

Answer by  DrHarris (508)

First, there are Trojan Horses, which look normal but are secretly dangerous, may steal and transmit data, or ruin your computer. Then there are Viruses of various types, which infect files and binary code in order to do any number of things. Worms are like viruses, except they spread on their own. Viruses require a user to spread them.

Answer by  Kat123 (591)

Well, there are many different types of computer virus. One of them is a malicious virus. An other is the Trojan virus. And there are many other very lethal virus' out there.

Answer by  Juan36 (17)

spywares and troyans enter your computer and take information from it and send it to unknowed people, worms virus can destroy several files from your computer