Articles of category "Harmful worms"

A computer worm is a self replicating program that usually hides deep in your system files making it very hard to remove. If you have other computers linked up with yours, the worm can even spread itself across all the computers on that network. The internet is full of worms, so instead of trying to remove them all, we should download anti-virus protection to keep them off our computers. Keeping your computer up to date is a must.

The computer viruses have increased with the excessive usage of the World Wide Web. With people from all around the world online 24/7 includes some of the computer geniuses who actually don’t use their intelligence for something creative rather they would prefer working on softwares or programs that might be harmful to the computers of other people online. This is where the big problem of viruses and worms come from. The functions of worm are multiple depending on which kind of worm you are infected by.

As computer connectivity and technology has increased, so have computer viruses. With so many computers constantly connected and communicating with each other on the internet, viruses have started to spread rapidly. A newer type of virus that has become common on the internet, particularly with email, are worms, which have caused much havoc, especially with office networks, in recent years.

Year 2003 was marked with a huge disaster in the world of computers. A worm exploiting the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) was attacking Windows machines all over the world, rapidly spreading across the whole World Wide Web. However, the harmful effects caused by Blaster worm were considered to be less serious than those caused by the previous versions of worms.