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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. Sobig.B was released on May 18, 2003. It was first called Palyh , but was later renamed to Sobig.B after anti-virus experts discovered it was a new generation of Sobig.
Tiny Banker was first discovered in 2012 when it was found to have infected thousands of computers in Turkey. After it was discovered, the original source code for the malware was leaked online and began undergoing individual revisions, making the process of detecting it harder for the institutions. [2]
SQL Slammer [a] is a 2003 computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed general Internet traffic.It also crashed routers around the world, causing even more slowdowns.
Winwebsec is the term usually used to address the malware that attacks the users of Windows operating system and produces fake claims similar to that of genuine anti-malware software. [ 15 ] SpySheriff exemplifies spyware and scareware: it purports to remove spyware, but is actually a piece of spyware itself, often accompanying SmitFraud ...
The scammer may falsely claim that normally disabled Windows services should not be disabled and that these services were disabled due to a computer virus. [ 19 ] The scammer may misuse Command Prompt tools to generate suspicious-looking output, for instance using the tree or dir /s command which displays an extensive listing of files and ...
After carrying out the above payload, the virus hangs the operating system, requiring users to perform a Hard boot by forcibly shutting the machine down by cutting the power, then turning the machine back on. Afterwards, the PC is completely unusable, as all .bat, .com, .exe, .ht, .hta, .pif and .scr files have been hooked to the virus itself ...
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Shamoon [a] (Persian: شمعون), also known as W32.DistTrack, [1] is a modular computer virus that was discovered in 2012, targeting then-recent 32-bit NT kernel versions of Microsoft Windows. The virus was notable due to the destructive nature of the attack and the cost of recovery.