A
worm is a travelling virus. Most common are e-mail
worms, which infect a computer, read the address book and send out e-mails without the senders knowledge, infecting the recipients.
[
enGENERAL COMPUTER FAQ ]
With the growing use of random scanners and automated
worms and viruses, keeping your internal machines shielded from the Internet is more important than ever.
[
enFIREWALLS ]
In both cases, Internet
Worms, such as MyDoom and Bagle, and the Trojan Phatbot were used to infect computers, which then fell under the control of Internet
criminals.
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enKEEP YOUR DATA SAFE ]
MCLH AB MCLH
09/01/2009
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