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The first Worm program
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Written by a person at Cornell University, it brought the internet the standstill
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most widespread virus of the virst decade of viruses, would count the number of reboots from its infection and display the phrase "you are stoned"
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A variant of stoned, but destroyed the first 100 sectors of harddrive
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The most destructive virus ever, it would erase the harddrive and wipe out the ROM
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First major virus to spread through Email
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A network virus that spread without the use of email or a browser
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A worm that entered through email and some variants had prosesses to render the computer inoperable
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attacked Symbian OS smart phones and displayed screens of skulls instead of a home page on the victims' phones.
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Many computer networks were unprepared for the attack, and as a result the virus brought outages to seattles 911 service
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They have become the most popular stealth tools of malicious code.
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The Netsky virus moves through e-mails, distributing a file, and triggering DDoS attacks
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A email trojan spread with the subject "230 dead as storm batters euroup
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A major security bug in OpenSSL cryptography, allowed many computers to get infected by other viruses. This resulted in many people needing to change thier password
