WORM DEFINITION
A worm is malicious self-replicating software, created for infection of multiple remote systems with purposes of user file corruption, system destabilization and user privacy violation. Some worms are just tools, helping a hacker to install other malicious software (such as Trojans or viruses) on your computer. The majority of worms infect remote systems through email, peer-to-peer networks, or vulnerable network shares ... More about what are worms
