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Generic Malware
Threat Level Damage Distribution

Means of transmission 

Generic Malware does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs the attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.

Further Details  

Generic Malware has the following additional characteristics:

• It is 10240 bytes in size.