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Wanabe PJ on Friday, May 4, 2012
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- 1949
- Theories for self-replicating programs are first developed.
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1981
- Apple Viruses 1, 2, and 3 are some of the first viruses “in the
wild,” or in the public domain. Found on the Apple II operating system,
the viruses spread through Texas A&M via pirated computer
games.
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1983
- Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a
computer virus as “a computer program that can affect other computer
programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly
evolved) copy of itself.”
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1986
- Two programmers named Basit and Amjad replace the executable code in
the boot sector of a floppy disk with their own code designed to infect
each 360kb floppy accessed on any drive. Infected floppies had “© Brain”
for a volume label.
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1987
- The Lehigh virus, one of the first file viruses, infects command.com
files.
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1988
- One of the most common viruses, Jerusalem, is unleashed. Activated
every Friday the 13th, the virus affects both .exe and .com files and
deletes any programs run on that day.
- MacMag and the Scores virus cause the first major Macintosh
outbreaks.
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1990
- Symantec launches Norton AntiVirus, one of the first antivirus
programs developed by a large company.
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1991
- Tequila is the first widespread polymorphic virus found in the wild.
Polymorphic viruses make detection difficult for virus scanners by
changing their appearance with each new infection.
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1992
- 1300 viruses are in existence, an increase of 420% from December of
1990.
- The Dark Avenger Mutation Engine (DAME) is created. It is a toolkit
that turns ordinary viruses into polymorphic viruses. The Virus Creation
Laboratory (VCL) is also made available. It is the first actual virus
creation kit.
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1994
- Good Times email hoax tears through the computer community. The hoax
warns of a malicious virus that will erase an entire hard drive just by
opening an email with the subject line “Good Times.” Though disproved,
the hoax resurfaces every six to twelve months.
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1995
- Word Concept becomes one of the most prevalent viruses in the
mid-1990s. It is spread through Microsoft Word documents.
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1996
- Baza, Laroux (a macro virus), and Staog viruses are the first to
infect Windows95 files, Excel, and Linux respectively.
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1998
- Currently harmless and yet to be found in the wild, StrangeBrew is
the first virus to infect Java files. The virus modifies CLASS files to
contain a copy of itself within the middle of the file's code and to
begin execution from the virus section.
- The Chernobyl virus spreads quickly via .exe files. As the notoriety
attached to its name would suggest, the virus is quite destructive,
attacking not only files but also a certain chip within infected
computers.
- Two California teenagers infiltrate and take control of more than
500 military, government, and private sector computer systems.
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1999
- The Melissa virus, W97M/Melissa, executes a macro in a document
attached to an email, which forwards the document to 50 people in the
user's Outlook address book. The virus also infects other Word documents
and subsequently mails them out as attachments. Melissa spread faster
than any previous virus, infecting an estimated 1 million PCs.
- Bubble Boy is the first worm that does not depend on the recipient
opening an attachment in order for infection to occur. As soon as the
user opens the email, Bubble Boy sets to work.
- Tristate is the first multi-program macro virus; it infects Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint files.
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2000
- The Love Bug, also known as the ILOVEYOU
virus, sends itself out via Outlook, much like Melissa. The virus comes
as a VBS attachment and deletes files, including MP3, MP2, and .JPG. It
also sends usernames and passwords to the virus's author.
- W97M.Resume.A, a new variation of the Melissa virus, is determined
to be in the wild. The “resume” virus acts much like Melissa, using a
Word macro to infect Outlook and spread itself.
- The “Stages” virus, disguised as a joke email about the stages of
life, spreads across the Internet. Unlike most previous viruses, Stages
is hidden in an attachment with a false “.txt” extension, making it
easier to lure recipients into opening it. Until now, it has generally
been safe to assume that text files are safe.
- “Distributed denial-of-service” attacks by hackers knock Yahoo,
eBay, Amazon, and other high profile web sites offline for several
hours.
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2001
- Shortly after the September 11th attacks, the Nimda virus infects
hundreds of thousands of computers in the world. The virus is one of the
most sophisticated to date with as many as five different methods of
replicating and infecting systems. The “Anna Kournikova” virus, which
mails itself to persons listed in the victim's Microsoft Outlook address
book, worries analysts who believe the relatively harmless virus was
written with a “tool kit” that would allow even the most inexperienced
programmers to create viruses. Worms increase in prevalence with Sircam,
CodeRed, and BadTrans creating the most problems. Sircam spreads
personal documents over the Internet through email. CodeRed attacks
vulnerable webpages, and was expected to eventually reroute its attack
to the White House homepage. It infected approximately 359,000 hosts in
the first twelve hours. BadTrans is designed to capture passwords and
credit card information.
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2002
- Author of the Melissa virus, David L. Smith, is sentenced to 20
months in federal prison. The LFM-926 virus appears in early January,
displaying the message “Loading.Flash.Movie” as it infects Shockwave
Flash (.swf) files. Celebrity named viruses continue with the “Shakira,”
“Britney Spears,” and “Jennifer Lopez” viruses emerging. The Klez worm,
an example of the increasing trend of worms that spread through email,
overwrites files (its payload fills files with zeroes), creates hidden
copies of the originals, and attempts to disable common anti-virus
products. The Bugbear worm also makes it first appearance in September.
It is a complex worm with many methods of infecting systems.
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2003
- In January the relatively benign “Slammer” (Sapphire) worm becomes
the fastest spreading worm to date, infecting 75,000 computers in
approximately ten minutes, doubling its numbers every 8.5 seconds in its
first minute of infection. The Sobig worm becomes the one of the first
to join the spam community. Infected computer systems have the potential
to become spam relay points and spamming techniques are used to
mass-mail copies of the worm to potential victims.
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2004
- In January a computer worm, called MyDoom or Novarg, spreads through
emails and file-sharing software faster than any previous virus or worm.
MyDoom entices email recipients to open an attachment that allows
hackers to access the hard drive of the infected computer. The intended
goal is a “denial of service attack” on the SCO Group, a company that is
suing various groups for using an open-source version of its Unix
programming language. SCO offers a $250,000 reward to anyone giving
information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the people who
wrote the worm.
- An estimated one million computers running Windows are affected by
the fast-spreading Sasser computer worm in May. Victims include
businesses, such as British Airways, banks, and government offices,
including Britain's Coast Guard. The worm does not cause irreparable
harm to computers or data, but it does slow computers and cause some to
quit or reboot without explanation. The Sasser worm is different than
other viruses in that users do not have to open a file attachment to be
affected by it. Instead, the worm seeks out computers with a security
flaw and then sabotages them. An 18-year-old German high school student
confessed to creating the worm. He's suspected of releasing another
version of the virus.
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2005
- March saw the world's first cell phone virus: Commwarrior-A. The
virus probably originated in Russia, and it spread via text message. In
the final analysis, Commwarrior-A only infected 60 phones, but it raised
the specter of many more—and more effective—cell phone viruses.
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2008
- First discovered in November, the Conficker virus is thought to be
the largest computer worm since Slammer of 2003. It's estimated that the
worm infected somewhere between nine and 15 million server systems
worldwide, including servers in the French Navy, the UK Ministry of
Defense, the Norwegian Police, and other large government organizations.
Since it's discovery, at least five variants of the virus have been
released. Authorities think that the authors of Conficker may be
releasing these variants to keep up with efforts to kill the virus.
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Yang tahun 2000 tu macam pernah kena
haah..virus I LOVE U..dulu popular..
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