How Does a Computer Worm Work?
Computer worms are made to infect other computers through using the Internet to spam copies of themselves to spread. Most computer worms are damaging through their negative impact of system and network resources through their rapid and mostly uncontrolled spread. Some worms are coupled or combined with other computer malware in order to maximize their impact. Methods of Computer Worm Infection A lot of computer worms are made with the sole intention to spread and not cause harm to networks and users computers. Examples of worms with benign intentions such as this that resulted in unintended network disruptions were the Morris Worm and Mydoom. Other worms will carry a payload meant to do harm. The ExploreZip worm will actually delete files on the targeted computer. Some worms will encrypt files in an attempt to extort the user to remove the encryption, and others will install a backdoor on your computer in order to allow it to be used to attack other computers, websites, or computing sy
