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Foil 31 Agents & Security

From Broad Overview of Agents and Their Motivation Event: HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Vasu Polisetty * See also color IMAGE

Things You Should Know!!
Trojan Horse - is a program that does something that the programmer intended, but the user would not approve of if he knew about it in advance
Virus - is a program that spreads, by making copies of itself in one way or another
Worm - is a self-sufficient program that spreads by spawning copies of itself on other hosts in a network
Flash Crowd - migrates from server to server, leading to hard-to-remedy travelling overloads



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