what is a worm?

Worm is a category of malware which stands for malicious software. WORM (write once read many) is a malware that replicate itself without any human action. Worm replicate itself on your computer which cause performance issues by continuously writing itself over the hard disk drive, and consequences might be your hard drive crash. Worm also attach itself with your mail address and send it to the other people and spread it via network and then it effects other's system and replicate the same process to affects others.

How to prevent worm attacks to safe yourself?

In order to keep yourself protected from a worm attack use a particular anti virus or anti malware software, which provides real time malware protection. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti virus programs.

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