Worms

Worm viruses on a computer are very annoying and can spread quickly.

Worm viruses often create folders in your computer that are just filled with damaging files, they will also replace your files with the worm ones. These are often hard to find and destroy because of the file names and locations that will be given. Often they will be given names that sound like trustworthy files. This could range from something like Paint program to Windows information, neither sounding suspicious.
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These spread very quickly often though email. When a worm infects your computer it will often take control of your email and send emails infected with the worm to all of your contacts.
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__**How to avoid one**__ There are two main ways of avoiding worms and viruses in general. One is just making sure you only go on trusted sites. there are programs and browser add-ons that will help you determine what is trustworthy and what isn't. Also you will wan't to have virus protection.There are two main highly trusted programs which are Norton And McAfee. Although these are good it has been recently mentioned that in reality they don't fair that much better then free programs such as Microsoft Security Essentials. Google is great and you can go through some programs and reviews to find what should be good.

__**How to get rid of one**__ [] if you have one then this may be a useful link. If you have learned of the kind of worm virus then you can use this to find out how to remove one of these worm viruses.Be careful when searching for methods of removal, if you are not sure about a virus scanner/remover it is best to do research, after all it can turn out to be a virus in itself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!