In the last few days I have received Messages on Messenger in relation to certain virus "Masked" under certain IDs or URLs or I know what, which, once you escape in PC-uri, cut and hang, go through the sword and fire, etc. And suddenly I was curious to find out what the most were criminals virus (of computers, to understand) that have ever circulated through Internet networks And not only, leaving behind nerves, nerves and nerves (sometimes panic).
So I came across an top of the best known, mediated, brushed and try virus Ever. That is, viruses around which myths were formed. And this top says so:
10. The ten place is proudly busy with the virus Elk clone. He was born under the minds and hands of a 15-year-old student, in 1982. Initially he wanted to represent a joke. It turned out to be a pretty bad one, which many "benefited". It was first virus spread through disks. He displayed a short poem written by the author, every 50 boot-ari.
9. A place above is Klez, one of the thousands of viruses that spread via e-mail. Only he made history, appearing exactly when The Internet had taken Avant (early 2000s) and due to the fact that it has developed more subspecies. It takes advantage of a vulnerability of Outlook-to and is transmitted automatically through emails (self-terminated to email addresses in address book).
8. On eight, the renowned (for now) has been settled Conficker. Although he was born just half a year ago (or there. That is November 2008), he won his place for the fact that caused one of the most widespread IT viruses from 2003 to the present. Although many had announced that they would be left with blood, it seems that the virus, although not really harmless, had nothing special about others malware (apart from surface of spread, obviously).
7. A little above the standings settled ExploreZip, a virus that has won its reputation and by the fact that, although it appeared about 10 years ago, there are still freedom copies. Like most viruses, and this Respands through the emails, more precisely their attachments. Buba consists of the fact that it not only spam Everything he finds in Addressbook, but It also produces damage in the computers that host it.
6. Storm It stopped (for now) on 6. appeared in 2007, more precisely during the time when Europe was hit by storms and others (even more serious than storms), hence the name. He managed to make his head unstoppable for a period because most were interested in anything else (family, house, goods of any kind - and rightly good). Initially appeared in the form of a video file or one Electronic greetings, then derived into several similar files and resuscitated several times around the holidays and some important events. Gave a lot of headaches for many for about a year.
5. At the middle of the standings we find it on Melissa. Pardon, we find it, because it's a virus. With this name, more precisely of a stripteuse to which he was dedicated. A kind of love story with implications ELECTRONIC, because the virus got out of control and began to spam the large group, managing to overcome some servers of some companies Marisoare, causing millions of dollars.
4. A place above we meet with Nimda (only figuratively, fortunately). Appeared immediately after September 11, 2001, Nimda was one of the viruses with the highest spreading speed (“going from nowhere to become the most common virus online in 22 minutes"), Using for this emails, Open and unsecured networks, server vulnerabilities (especially a IIS- Internet Information Services @ Microsoft) or Web sites. He had not escaped any version of Windows, he knew everything that existed at that time. It is useless to talk, it is understood that they were nosy (at a large scale).
3. On the lowest step of the podium has made its way MyDoom, a virus with Classic trends (spread via e-mail, SPAMATION OF ADRESSBOOK) but also with new features: it was One of the first viruses to use also P2P (peer-to-peer) networks to multiply and form a large and widespread family Computers virusate (World Wide). The most affected P2P network at that time was Care, due to its flourishing popularity. In addition, this virus was the first one that had as a target a company (SCO - those who tried to get patent on Linux, thus creating a reputation worse than the microsoft).
2. Second place is Sasser, a virus created by a 17-year-old kid (at that time), who made his head among the networks airlines, a Coast guards and even of some GOVERNMENTS. Frustrating at Sasser was the fact that, although it was very simple to prevent virus (just by a Security Update of Windows), this did not happen (please, in most cases). Even at present, those who use Underable versions Windows are prone to Sasser virus.
1. The first prize with the crown wins the virus ILOVEYOU (nicknamed and The Love Bug), one of the most bastard viruses, which broke the hearts of many when they discovered what it was actually in reality. He made his head at the beginning of summer 2000, when the world dreams of love stories and butterflies in the stomach. The spread mode was already well known at that time, the email. In just one day he made the world around, infecting millions of computers and caused damage worth $ 5.5 billion (In order to get rid of the virus, the Pentagon, the CIA and the British Parliament had to stop SERVERS for an indefinite period). Iloveyou only affected computers using Windows operating systems, any other operating system being immune.
There are probably many other viruses worthy to enter into a top, both by notoriety and by the damages brought (surely the most dangerous are the ones who "rob" bank accounts), but the ten listed/presented above are the ones who managed to produce the most panic attacks, either by the fact that they were something new and very few were familiar with such headaches, or by the fact that they appeared in a period when the Internet was in full development and many naive made contact for the first time with it, from where they arrived.
