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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.
The Sobig Worm was a computer worm that infected millions of Internet-connected, Microsoft Windows computers in August 2003. [ 1 ] Although there were indications that tests of the worm were carried out as early as August 2002, Sobig.A was first found in the wild in January 2003.
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 running Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP and servers running Windows NT and 2000. [3] The worm's name comes from the reversed spelling of "admin". [1]
Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. [2] It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) [3] [4] and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use ...
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . [ 1 ]
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar.Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
Hex dump of the Blaster worm, showing a message left for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates by the worm's programmer. This timeline of computer viruses and worms presents a chronological timeline of noteworthy computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, similar malware, related research and events.
Netsky is a prolific family of computer worms which affect Microsoft Windows operating systems. The first variant appeared on Monday, February 16, 2004. The "B" variant was the first family member to find its way into mass distribution.