It's as if a time-wasting flock of Angry Birds has buried productivity like a worm.
Described as a virus, Melissa was said by some to be both a virus and a worm.
From what is left, it is possible to pick out what distinguishes a fungus from a worm.
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Symantec observed virtually no targeted attacks before Stuxnet, a worm that attacked industrial-control systems, appeared in 2010.
The more brown a worm is, the milder the winter, while a blacker worm predicts a harsh season.
He's obviously surprised, thinking that he was eating a cricket and not a bag with a worm inside.
Practically every outbreak of a worm or malicious virus has been preceded by warnings from the security community.
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The virus is more properly known as a worm because it needs the help of others to spread itself.
Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body.
They added that using a worm-like motion helped reduce the noise such machines produce, making them suitable "for reconnaissance purposes".
Now security companies have caught copies of a worm travelling the net that tries to infect Windows machines via this loophole.
The day of the lone hacker in Des Moines trying to invent a worm to bring down the network for personal bragging rights .
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He plays Emmet Ray, the notorious (and made-up) jazz guitarist from the thirties, a great artist who was also a worm and a loser.
While a computer virus requires some sort of human intervention to be launched, such as opening an e-mail, a worm takes off on its own.
And in late December, a worm spread through Google 's social networking site, Orkut, infecting hundreds of thousands of accounts and sending messages from friend to friend.
"If you are taking part in a test of which you are not informed, you feel yourself as a worm that they use in fishing, " Mr Nagy said.
"Tequila can't have a worm in it, " the mashgiach explained.
And in late December, a worm spread through Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) social networking site, Orkut, infecting hundreds of thousands of accounts and sending messages from friend to friend.
They were expected to come out with at least one stunning conclusion right off the bat, and they did: Human beings had about 32, 000 genes, give or take several thousand--not that much more than a fruit fly or a worm.
Although there have been malicious bots around for some time instant messaging, security firm IMLogic believes that this is the first time someone has tried to use bot code to help spread a worm around an IM network by pretending to be a legitimate user.
This was because Slammer contained a simple, fast scanner to find vulnerable machines in a small worm with a total size of only 376 bytes.
Dr. THOMAS: In fact, you see the insect arriving from the forest and now jumping into the water, and then a huge worm emerging, and then the worm swim, searching for a sexual partner.
Deep in oceans around the world lurks a type of worm without a mouth, anus or gut that makes its living by eating the bones of whales and other deceased sea creatures.
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In a cunning twist by the virus writers, an e-mail in wide circulation that purportedly offers a "fix" for the Sasser worm actually infects the user's computer with a different virulent worm, known as Netsky-AC.
My first (and worst) pet was a newt that choked to death on a bad worm.
Unlike a malicious worm, however, his images were incredibly easy to disarm, despite their aesthetic armor.
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Bargmann of Rockefeller University studies a primitive worm, C. elegans, which has only 302 neurons in its brain.
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