what is worms
what is worms worms are malicious programs like viruses and have almost same functionality. but worms differ from the viruses. A worm does not require any kind of human involvement whereas a virus need some form of human involvement special property of worm. worms can be considered as special type of viruses. worms have ability to replicate itself in the system but they are not able to attach themselves to target system program. worms can be spread over the infected network without any human involvement where as a virus is not able to do so. hence there are few things which a virus can't do but worm can but ultimately the worm is special kind of virus.