ISP Information:
A self-replicating program that reproduces itself over a network. The most famous worm is the one created by Robert Morris at Cornell that shut down many unix computers on the Internet in 1988. Currently making the rounds is a Windows worm named happy99.exe (or Trojan-Happy99 or I-Worm.Happy) that masquerades as a fireworks show, replaces your wsock32.dll file, and sends copies of itself along with e-mail or news message
ISP Glossary:
worm - In article , Michael D Sullivanwrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:55:45 -0700, Nick Ruark posted the following to comp.dcom.telecom: The data tags in each system store much more information -- 128 bytes -- than bar codes, which can store only 1.1 bytes. I not would have expected Computerworld to make this kind of error. UPC bar codes encode considerably more than 1.1 bytes, which would allow for slightly less than nine products in the U.S. consumer marketplace. The standard UPC code has ten decimal digits, plus two additional digits that perform more limited functions (product class and checksum, or something like that). The ten decimal digits, representing 10,000,000,000 possible items, could be stored as ten hexadecimal bytes, but there wouldn't be ten bytes of information (because each byte has a capacity of storing 0-15, but only 0-9 would be used). There is really somewhat more than 9 bytes (8,589,934,592 items) of information.Fairly obviously, someone saw "9 bytes", thought it meant "9 bits",and "helpfully" converted it.Cheers,-- jra
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