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-From the JargonFile:
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-~[from tapeworm in John Brunner's novel The Shockwave Rider, via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare [Virus]. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's Great Worm of 1988, a ‘benign’ one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of [Sun]s and [VAX]en across the U.S.
+ <br> [worm | JargonFile:worm], n.:
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~[from tapeworm in John Brunner's novel The Shockwave Rider, via XEROX PARC]
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A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare [Virus].
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Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only [
crackers|JargonFile:cracker]
write worms.
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Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's [
Great Worm|JargonFile:Great Worm]
of 1988, a ‘benign’ one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of [Sun | SunMicrosystems
]s and [VAX]en across the U.S.
+ <br> See also [cracker | JargonFile:cracker], [RTM | JargonFile:RTM], [Trojan horse | JargonFile:Trojan horse], [ice | JargonFile:ice]
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[MyDoom] and many other [Email]-borne malware are [Virus]es, but some of them also reproduce themselves by other means, so the line can be hard to draw.
