Detection of Internet Worm

With the recent popularity of Internet,worms have been exerting increasing severe threat to the computer system and network. There are several global detection methods, but they do not apply to local net. A new cooperative approach to automatic detection of worms using local nets is presented in this paper. This focuses on scanning worm characteristics in local nets and uses different methods to cope with different worm behaviors, The results show that this approach is promising for it can quickly find worm intrusion in local nets and extract unknown worm signatures that can be used l to prevent more worm threats.