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CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 140 of 177

Societal Impacts — Question 43

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Question 43

A worm is ...............

  1. A slimy pink thing that lives in dirt.
  2. Pieces of malicious code that make copies of themselves and spread through computers without human interaction.
  3. An unsolicited email message.
Answer

Pieces of malicious code that make copies of themselves and spread through computers without human interaction.

Reason — A worm is a self-replicating program which eats up the entire disk space or memory. A worm keeps on creating its copies until all the disk space or memory is filled.