Which of the following best characterizes -worms-?

A. Malicious programs that can run independently and can propagate without the aid of a carrier program such as email.

B. Programming code errors that cause a program to repeatedly dump data

C. Malicious programs that require the aid of a carrier program such as email

D. Malicious programs that masquerade as common applications such as screensavers or macro- enabled Word documents

Explanation:

Worms are malicious programs that can run independently and can propagate without the aid of a carrier program such as email.