virus

By GustafsonM

  • 1260

    1260
    AKA V2PX was a virus made by Mark Washburn in 1989 for MS DOS. It was the first to use a form of polymorphic encryption.

  • 4k

    4k
    AKA 4096. This virus infects COM and .EXE files on MS DOS. This virus was made to display the message "Frodo Lives" on the screen. The date it activates is September 22 every year. This was the first virus to use stealth.

  • Ambulance

    Ambulance
    AKA Ambulance Car or RedX. This virus only infects .COM files on MS DOS systems. This virus was discovered in Germany.

  • ACME

    ACME
    This virus effects only EXE files on MS DOS platforms. Every time one of the infected files was exicuted the virus would infect a new one.

  • Melissa

    Melissa
    AKA Mailissa, Simpsons, Kwyjibo, Kwejeebo. This virus is a Microsoft Word Macro virus. This virus was a mass mail virus. Released into the world by David L. Smith in New Jersey.

  • Kak worm

    Kak worm
    Restarted the computer after 5pm, on the first day of each month, and displayed the message: "Driver Memory Error - Kagou-Anti-Kro$oft says not today !"

  • ILOVEYOU

    ILOVEYOU
    AKA Loveletter or LoveBug. This worm attacked millions of windows personal computers.

  • Code Red

    Code Red
    AKA the Heartbleed worm. This worm gave hackers access to any server that it was infecting and gave the hacker complete and total control of the system.

  • Blaster

    Blaster
    AKA Lovesan. This was targetat at bill gates with a message saying "billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!"

  • Sasser

    Sasser
    AKA Big One. This worm affected vulnerable versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000.

  • Brontok

    Brontok
    AKA W32/Rontokbro.gen@MM, W32.Rontokbro@mm, BackDoor.Generic.1138, W32/Korbo-B, Worm/Brontok.a, Win32.Brontok.A@mm, Worm.Mytob.GH, W32/Brontok.C.worm, and Win32/Brontok.E, W32.Rontokbro.D@mm. was a virus that spread through email to Indonesian Windows computers.

  • BuluBebek

    BuluBebek
    AKA W32/VBWorm.QXE. Was programmed using the Visual Basic programing language.

  • Zotob

    Zotob
    This is a worm that affects security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows.

  • Bomber

    Bomber
    AKA Commander Bomber. This Virus affects MS DOS and is known for its "patchy infection". This virus inserts fragments of itself into files and constructs itself inside the file, making it very difficult to detect.