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Its main aim is to infect and spread to other computers.
|Detection updated on:||Sept. 3, 2003|
Worm-Generic is not a specific virus, but a group of worms with the following common characteristics:
It spreads quickly through any of the means of transmission usually used by viruses.
Infection is carried out when the file carrying the worm is run. This file has a variable name and carries out the infection in different ways. It tries to do this without the user realizing and is sometimes included inside other viruses and worms.
As it is not a specific virus, Worm-Generic does not have any visible symptoms that allow it to be identified.