Computer Network Worms Propagation and its Defence Mechanisms: A Survey
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2014
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Information security is one of the major concerns for military, government, civil
and commercial organizations and security risk has been immensely raised on the internet
access. Self-duplicating, self-propagating malicious codes knoivn as worms spread
themselves without any human interaction and launch the most destructive attacks against
networks and cause high security risks. Increasing threats from worms in the network
continue to be a challenging task to detect and handle. Various worms exist in network
affecting the communication security and different worm handling mechanisms exists to
handle the threat created by them. Considering the features and metrics of the existing
mechanisms in the detection and contaiiiineiit of worms in the network, this paper surveys
the classincation of worms and several existing defence mechanism and metrics to detect
those worm attacks in the network.