Fighting malware and spam

Wabbit

Program that creates lots of copies of itself

Wabbits are a fairly uncommon form of self-replicating malware, which unlike worms do not attempt to spread across networks, instead simply dropping numerous copies of themselves on the local system.

The most common form of wabbit is the fork bomb.

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