Meanings of computer worm in English

A computer worm is a little like a computer virus.

A virulent computer worm that hobbled the global Internet today affected stock trading in South Korea.

The U.S. and Israel are widely suspected of using the Stuxnet computer worm to target Iranian nuclear centrifuges.

An Iranian nuclear power plant has been infiltrated by a computer worm that attacks the integral systems of the plant's workings.

Computers in Iran have been hardest hit by a dangerous computer worm that tries to steal information from industrial control systems.

Israel and the US reportedly behind a computer worm that infects the operating systems at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

When an obscure computer worm called Jitux.A spread through networks in Mexico, Portugal, and Spain in January, it didn't do any damage.

A number of Irish firms have been hit this week by a computer worm disguised as a movie attachment, writes Karlin Lillington.

Thousands of Indigo.ie email account holders faced lengthy delays to their email services yesterday following the spread of a computer worm called Swen.

The SCO Group set up a temporary website yesterday, a day after the MyDoom computer worm knocked the US software company's website offline.

Stuxnet, a computer worm believed to have been designed to sabotage Iran's enrichment of uranium hit many of the country's centrifuges last year.

In recent years, the programme has experienced a series of dramatic setbacks including assassinations of nuclear scientists and infection by Stuxnet, a computer worm.

He added there was no evidence the new computer worm was linked to last week's attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

A fast-spreading computer worm corrupted global computer networks yesterday causing some Irish firms to shut down their systems and delays for many computer users.

The contribution of this hybrid spreading mechanism, which is also a characteristic of some important computer worm outbreaks, to HIV-1 progression in vivo remains unknown.

The rapidly evolving "Sasser" computer worm tore across the Internet today, hitting corporate and home computers and stoking fears worse may be to come.