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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:06:03 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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 From the JargonFile: 
  
-[ [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 Suns and VAXen across the U.S. 
+~ [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. 
  
-[MyDoom] and many other email -borne malware are viruses
+[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