Notes on  WORM 

[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. See also CRACKER, RTM,
TROJAN HORSE, ICE.

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