Computer Worms: Traditional Malware
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It will use this machine as a host scan and infect other computers. How do computer worms work? Worms are major security threats to the internet. Worms refers to a kind of computer viruses which are actively and widely spread on the internet to infect the computers. Worms spread in a very short span of time and does not give time for any human countermeasures to happen. After a computer worm loads and begins running on a newly infected system, it will typically follow its prime directive to remain active on an infected system for as long as possible and to spread to as many vulnerable systems as possible. Once active on the newly infected computer, it initiates a network search for new potential victims. The woem then continues...