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A helpful worm or anti-worm is a worm designed to do something that its author feels is helpful, though not necessarily with the permission of the executing computer's owner. Beginning with the first research into worms at Xerox PARC , there have been attempts to create useful worms.
November 10: Agobot is a computer worm that can spread itself by exploiting vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows. Some of the vulnerabilities are MS03-026 and MS05-039. [37] November 20: Bolgimo is a computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability at Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface (CVE-2003-0352). [38]
Network worm. At startup, it kills the process lsass.exe, a windows process which handles file permissions. Killing lsass causes the computer to reboot one minute later, which would cause sasser to run again. This would continue in an infinite loop until the computer is shut down manually. Sircam
The Stration worms employ social engineering to infect the target machine by arriving in an e-mail masquerading as a report from a mail server informing the recipient (in somewhat broken English) that their computer is infected due to an unpatched security flaw in Windows, and offering as an attachment a purported fix, which is in fact the worm ...
Mydoom was a computer worm that targeted computers running Microsoft Windows. It was first sighted on January 26, 2004. It was first sighted on January 26, 2004. It became the fastest-spreading e-mail worm ever, exceeding previous records set by the Sobig worm and ILOVEYOU , a record which as of 2025 has yet to be surpassed.
Mumu consists of a mix of malicious files and actual utilities. Because of the easily customised nature of this worm, many variants have been discovered, but most are generically detected under the Mumu.A name.
Worm: 1990: Sarmad Adnan Worm 4: 1992: Sarmad Adnan, Gulcu Ceki Worm War: 1990: Kirk Saathoff WormWorld: 1993: Kevin Ng Wrath of the Gods: 1994: Luminaria: Wumpus for Windows: 1993: Monte Ferguson Wyatt Earp's Old West: 1994: Amazing Media, Grolier Electronic Publishing
The Nimda virus is a malicious file-infecting computer worm. The first released advisory about this threat (worm) was released on September 18, 2001. Nimda affected both user workstations ( clients ) running Windows 95 , 98 , NT , 2000 , or XP and servers running Windows NT and 2000.