Informatics Practices
A worm is ……………
- A slimy pink thing that lives in dirt.
- Pieces of malicious code that make copies of themselves and spread through computers without human interaction.
- An unsolicited email message.
Computing Safety & Ethics
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Pieces of malicious code that make copies of themselves and spread through computers without human interaction.
Reason — A worm is a self-replicating program which eats up the entire disk space or memory. A worm keeps on creating its copies until all the disk space or memory is filled.
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