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ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [1]
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]
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 ...
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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.
It was the first worm to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the very pieces of software designed to enhance network security, and carried a destructive payload, unlike previous worms. It is so named because the phrase "(^.^) insert witty message here (^.^)" appears in the worm's payload.
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 ...
Happy99 (also termed Ska or I-Worm) [4] is a computer worm for Microsoft Windows. It first appeared in mid-January 1999, spreading through email and usenet . The worm installs itself and runs in the background of a victim's machine, without their knowledge.