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Recovery Glossary > Worm
Worm is a self-replicating program that harms the network and consumes
bandwidth. Worms do not stick top an application but instead they travel
over a computer network and perform malicious actions. A worm acts as
an agent to the computer virus or by itself cause damage to the system.
Worms use the computer resources and possibly halt the system.
Worms have been broadly categorized into five types, namely:
- Internet Worms
- E-mail worms
- IRC worms
- Instant Messaging worms
- File sharing networks worms
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