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• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....
• RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr....
• RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm)...
• phage: n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized way
  esp. one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}....
• Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by {RTM}.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder days})....
• phage n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized way
  esp. one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse....
• virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
  via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....
• Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days)....
• Trojan horse: [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards] n.
  A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses!...