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minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-213 days agoUpdating to a new version isn’t self-propagation though. Maybe if it randomly installed itself overtop of Linux or MacOS, they’d have a point. It also doesn’t modify other computer programs and maliciously insert its own code into those programs or require a host program. So I guess maybe it doesn’t have… Any features of a virus at all. It just sucks. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
Updating to a new version isn’t self-propagation though. Maybe if it randomly installed itself overtop of Linux or MacOS, they’d have a point.
It also doesn’t modify other computer programs and maliciously insert its own code into those programs or require a host program.
So I guess maybe it doesn’t have… Any features of a virus at all.
It just sucks.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus