Worms are a major threat to the Internet. Their automatic nature makes them powerful and destructive. Using existing and evolving methods of propagation, worms of the future will become increasingly more powerful and harder to contain. Crafted by malicious code developers, worm technology continues to become more destructive, at times causing irreversible damage, as seen in the wake of Code Red and Nimda.
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