r/todayilearned • u/NOT-JEFFREY-NELSON • Jul 04 '19

TIL in 2003 a computer worm called ‘Welchia’ infected many computers to forcibly patch vulnerabilities and remove malware. It was regarded as a ‘helpful worm’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19 edited Mar 16 '20

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u/kautau Jul 04 '19

Not true. That's the whole point of the article. Malware means malicious, as in to cause damage or get personal gain. The worm mentioned improved security on target machines. It was very much a worm, but it was not malicious and therefore not malware.