History Of The Viruses

If you have never experienced a computer virus, only a matter of time you may be experiencing.

The problem is, you will miss the development of computer viruses. If the device anti-virus software that is not too much used, and virus attacks caused millions of dollars in damages overnight.
The virus will become a nightmare, but for the average user a few years ago, when the only solution in many cases have been reformatting your hard drive and start from scratch (probably not at all).

So join in our journey down the memory to recall some of the worst viruses of all time. (Though, note, "worst" is a matter of much debate in the security industry, because the number of infected machines and the amount of financial loss is always estimated. If you think another virus was worse than this, please post to remind us!

VIRUS DURING PERIOD ...

Brain 1986
Everything starts from here: Brain is the first "real" virus ever discovered, back in 1986. Brain does not hurt your PC, but it launched the malware industry with a bang and gave bad ideas to over 100,000 virus creators for 2 decades.

Michelangelo, 1991
Worst virus yg menjakiti MS-DOS, Michelangelo attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and floppy disk is inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly. After spreading the quiet / silent for months, the virus "active" on March 6, and immediately began to destroy tens of thousands of computer data.

Melissa, 1999
Like a worm, Melissa (named after a stripper) to tear down the entire mail system caused computers to send mountains of messages to all addresses. Virus writers are finally caught and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Iloveyou, 2000
This virus was recorded to be the first viruses to trick users into opening a file, in this case claimed as a love letter sent to the recipient. In fact, the vbs script file that is sent in piles of junk mail and deleted thousands of files.
The results predict a very adverse view that 10 percent of all computers are affected, for a fee of $ 5.5 billion. Perhaps the worst worm of all time

Code Red, 2001
An early "blended thread" attack, Code Red Target is not a user's Web server computer, Defacing websites and then launch denial of service attacks are hosted on IP addresses, including at the White House.

Nimda, 2001
Made to the Code Red attack to find some way system into the computer (emails, web sites, network connections, and others), Nimda infected both Web servers and computer users. He found a way into a highly effective computer, 22 minutes after he was released, he became a viral internet's most extensive at the time.

Klez, 2001
An email virus, Klez pioneered spoofing the "From" field in email messages sent, so it was impossible to tell if Bill Gates was right or not to send you information about getting free money.

Slammer, 2003
Disseminator of the fastest virus, this worm spreads about 75,000 systems in just 10 minutes, slowing the Internet to a crawl (like Code Red) and shutting down thousands of websites.

Mydoom, 2004
Virus prominent as the fastest-spreading email viruses of all time, Mydoom infected computers so they, in turn, send more junk mail. At other times, Mydoom also used to attack the SCO Group site, a company that is not popular to attack the other companies that use Linux distributions.

Storm, 2007
The worst new virus, Storm spread via email spam with a fake attachment and ultimately infected up to 10 million computers, so they join the zombie botnet.

May be a knowledge and lessons for us all, to be careful in applying the Internet service or website.