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OCR: ND WSIIY ND CO PUEE R -1 rm Isa worm some type of virus? "At 2:28 a.m besieged Berkeley scientist- Hike fr ont- InfoWeb line soldier engulfed by the enemy -sent bulletin around the nation: We are currently under attack. Thus began one o1 the most t harrowing days of the computer age This lead story in The Wall Street Journal reported the now famous Internet worm that spread to more than 6,000 Internet host computers software worm is program designed enter Worn Interne computer systerm- usually network -through security "holes. "Like virus worm repro- duces itself. Unlike virus worm does not need Tr he attached documen exe- cutable program to reproduce The software worm that attacked the Internet entered each computer through security holes in the electronic mail system, then used daea stor ...