"You don't have to do anything for a worm to wriggle its way into your system. With no assistance from you, worms essentially find their way into your system through a backdoor and once they're in, devastation can follow. Some of the worst exploits in PC history were worms. Slammer, Blaster, Code Red, Sasser, and Zotob come to mind. Not only can a worm do an incredible amount of harm to your own systems, it can deputize your system in an effort to spread itself to other systems, essentially turning your system into a Typhoid Mary. This is one reason why it's even super critical for businesses to patch their systems immediately because once a worm gets behind a company's firewall, there isn't much that protects the other systems on the network from becoming infected."
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