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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
worm
Definition:
1. A destructive program that replicates itself throughout
disk and memory, using up the computer's resources and
eventually putting the system down (see virus and logic
bomb); 2. a program that moves throughout a network and
deposits information at each node for diagnostic purposes,
or causes idle computers to share some of the processing
workload; 3. WORM (Write Once Read Many) a storage device
that uses an optical medium that can be recorded only once.
Updating requires destroying the existing data (zeroes [0]
made ones [1]), and writing the revised data to an unused
part of the disk.
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