Slapper

Use of the terms 'virus' and 'worm' reinforce the analogy of the biological characteristics of the entities. '...some authorities (including Fred Cohen the 'father' of computer virology) regard worms as a subset of the genus virus....It can be said that the worm infects the environment (an...

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Paul Elwell

November 15, 2004

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