出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/04/15 23:06 UTC 版)
A helpful worm is variant on a computer worm which delivers its payload by doing "helpful" actions instead of malicious actions. Welchia was a major example of a helpful worm - utilizing the same exploit that caused the Blaster worm. Infected computers automatically began downloading Microsoft security updates for Windows without the users' consent and automatically rebooted the computers. One of these updates was, incidentally, the patch that fixed the exploit.