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Worms A menace to the internet society

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  CRITERIA A:
  
  Day by day, the internet society has more and more problems and obstacles to maintain the security of the World Wide Web and its users. Every day new viruses appear and their purpose is to destroy or badly damage at any cost your computer. This viruses can be cleaned up by an anti-virus sometimes or they can definitely destroy the hard disk. A worm is similar but it is a program or algorithm that replicates itself over a computer network and usually performs malicious actions, such as using up the computer's resources and possibly shutting the system down . So its capacity to replicate makes it much more dangerous and depending on the type of worm, its worst to a computer.
  
  CRITERIA B:
  
  The article Worm double whammy still hitting hard talks about Nachi "the problematic fixer worm" and Sofig.F "the worst mass-mailing computer virus to date" And tells us its problems and how they work to damage home, and office computer systems.
  
  There are different types of worms, and throughout the years, these have developed a capacity of diffusing every time worst and faster. Once a computer gets the worm by the internet, mostly received by e-mail or p2p file sharing, it passes it to other pc's by the same way, and the chain goes on and on never ending unless every user take the needed cautions, this worms can go into a Wide Area Network (WAN) or a Local Area Network (LAN), by a diskette, or by the internet as I've said before.
  
  The Nachi Worm is one of this worms, but its job is to get in each pc and clean the system from any harmful worm, this sounds good, but lots of problems have occurred from this virus, in the article "'Good' worm, new bug mean double trouble they explain why" "The Internet worm--called MSBlast...