A worm may refer to any of the following:

  1. First developed by John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC in 1978, a worm is a destructive self-replicating program containing code capable of gaining access to computers or networks. Once in the computer or network, the worm causes harm by deleting, modifying, distributing, or otherwise manipulating data.

Who created the first computer worm?

Robert T. Morris later developed the Morris Worm in 1988, which became the first Internet worm.

A worm may sometimes be called a worm virus.

What’s the difference between a worm and a virus?

A worm self-replicates and executes without any initial interaction from a user, whereas a virus requires a user to perform an action (e.g., opening an infected file or installing a program).

Can a worm be destructive?

Yes. Like a virus, a worm can be designed to be destructive and may even be designed to look for a specific target.

  1. Short for Write Once Read Many, WORM is a CD technology introduced by Philips and Sony in 1988. Using this technology, a CD is written to only once, but then may read multiple times. See CD-R for additional information about this technology.
  • What is the difference between a virus and malware?
  • Computer virus history.
  • How does a computer get infected with a virus or spyware?
  • Computer security help and support.
  1. Worms is a franchise of games developed by the Team 17 company.

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