What is worms in computing?

Answer 1

Worms slow computer down, they can affect your internet by making it not work, and in general it can stop things on your computer from working at all. It can make computer just keep rebooting, but not actually turning on. They can ask you for money, scamming you.

Answer 2

A wormhole is a vulnerability that allows a worm to infect or operate on your computers. Wormholes are there to allow malicious software to infect a victim's computer and in most cases worms will use the same hole to communicate with its author. Most worms are there to penetrate firewalls. How do you help to patch wormholes. Well if you are using a PC (computer that is running an operating system of windows) go to the Microsoft website and make sure you are updated.

Answer 3

It's a virus that's very hard to get rid of, and once you get it virus protection won't help you, it will trick your virus protection into thinking you don't have a virus, you have to reboot or recover (not restart) your computer to kill it.

Answer 4

It depends on the context. It's a type of virus - OR - It's an acronym - standing for Write Once Read Many. In the latter example, the term worm is applied ot media such as CD-ROM's or DVD-ROM's - of the type that can only be written to once.

Answer 5

A worm is a self-repicating computer virus that scans for computers on a network (such as the internet, and local area networks) for specific security vulnerabilities and then attempts to exploit them in order to install itself on the vulnerable computers and spread itself. Worms, unlike most other virus types can install themselves onto computers with minimal or no user interaction.

Answer 6

It is a virus program that continues to run and "devours" your computer's memory.

Answer 7

Worms enter your computer through security flaws or "holes" as they are commonly called, in your network. They often replicate themselves and delete files with certain extensions on them.

Answer 8

A worm is a computer malware program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. This spreading happens most likely where computers are networked.

Answer 9

WORM in computing terms stands for... Write Once Read Many. A commonly used WORM device is a Music CD. (NOT a CD-RW)