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Find out more about SOPA and PIPA on non other than wikipedia
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Malware Ungeekified: A layman perspective

Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming (code, scripts, active content, and other software) designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, gain unauthorized access to system resources, and other abusive behavior. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.

- source: Malware

In short, virus, worms, trojan, adware, spyware and other exploits are all a form of malware, however, most people simply refer everything as virus. They are given different names due to their infection and concealment methods further sub divided with their exploitation methods. A malware even under the same subdivision may have different purposes, for example a spyware may be coded to spy on a specific activities that you're doing on your computer, website that you're visiting and then propose to you pop-up advertisement that you are more likely interested in.