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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.
Worm February 17, 2006 Propagated through file-share networks. [10] W32/Bolgimo.worm W32/IRCbot.worm: W32/Checkout, W32.Mubla, W32/IRCBot-WB, and Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.aaq Trojan Worm Backdoor June 1, 2007 It provides a backdoor server and allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via an IRC channel. WANK: OILZ ...
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]
Agobot, also frequently known as Gaobot, is a family of computer worms. Axel "Ago" Gembe, a German programmer also known for leaking Half-Life 2 a year before release, was responsible for writing the first version. [1] [2] [3] The Agobot source code describes it as: “a modular IRC bot for Win32 / Linux”.
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Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, [3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet. [4] Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ...
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.
Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.