ABSTRACT
Malware is a relatively new term in the security field. It was created to address the need to discuss software or programs that are intentionally designed to include functions for penetrating a system, breaking security policies, or carrying malicious or damaging payloads. Malware, such as backdoors and RATs, is intended to make intrusion and penetration easier. In the modern computing environment, everything — including many supposedly isolated mainframes — is next to everything else. Where older Trojans relied on limited spread for as long as users on bulletin board systems could be fooled, and early-generation viruses required manual disk and file exchange, versions of malware use network functions. The success of a given piece of malware is also associated with the relative proportion of a given platform in the overall computing environment. The evolution of computer viruses is dramatically accelerated when compared to the development of their biological counterparts.
