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worm
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n. [from tapeworm in John Brunner's novel The Shockwave Rider , via XEROX
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PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as
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it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it
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is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example
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was Robert T. Morris's Great Worm of 1988, a benign one that got out of
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control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also
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cracker , RTM , Trojan horse , ice.
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