And so that's the history of the world's first, I mean, truly weaponized Internet worm.

"You've already been de-perimeterised" to describe the Internet worms and viruses which are designed to by-pass the border using web and e-mail.

The famous 'Internet worm' incorporated a password-cracking algorithm.

A. While you should not rule out system or software problems, at least one Internet worm is going around that disables antivirus software.

Early this month an Internet worm, known as Explore.

They say a vulnerability in Windows is critical only if its exploitation could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without user action.

There's also the Robert Morris from upstate who in 1988 created the first Internet worm.

Internet worms even use buffer overflows to exploit vulnerabilities in programs like Internet Explorer.

Robert Tappan Morris was a Cornell student, who began work in 1988 on an early Internet worm.

Such activity is typical of e-mail-borne Internet worms, which replicate by sending themselves to everyone in the infected computer's address book.