Virus-like program that spreads automatically to other computers by sending itself out by email or by any other means. A program that propagates itself by attacking other machines and copying itself to the affected machine.
Worms have self-replicating code that travels from machine to machine by various means. A worms first objective is merely propagation. Worms can be destructive depending on what payload they have been given. Worms may replace files, but do not insert themselves into files.
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Home land is a worm capable of adding a piece of code to all executable files .It may spread by exploiting the Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface Buffer Overrun Vulnerability.
Looks for a connection on the vx9.users.freebsd.at domain.
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