it appears that viral invasions are considered lateral gene transference after looking into it- But it still seems to me that it’s a different process than bacteria sharing DNA info for the purpose of survival- HGT between species specific kinds for survival purposes is fairly rare and limited in scope, and usually confined to the same species kinds, while viral invasion is more common and can occur between dissimilar species kinds- and doesn’t actually ‘transfer info from one species to another’, but rather injects it’s info in a hostile takeover/invasion, and which doesn’t actually work with the host’s DNA to improve survival rates in hostile conditions, but rather causes the host system to react to the invading info and work out workarounds to the foreign dissimilar DNA information-
Still working on this-