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Comparison of computer viruses

Index Comparison of computer viruses

The compilation of a unified list of computer viruses is made difficult because of naming. [1]

121 relations: ABC (computer virus), Abraxas (computer virus), Acid (computer virus), Acme (computer virus), Actifed (computer virus), Ada (computer virus), Adware, AGI-Plan, AI (computer virus), AIDS (computer virus), Alabama (computer virus), Alcon (computer virus), Alureon, Ambulance (computer virus), Anna Kournikova (computer virus), ANTI (computer virus), AntiCMOS, Antivirus software, Apple II, ARCV-n, Australia, BIOS, Bluetooth, Bomber (computer virus), Botnet, Brain (computer virus), Byte Bandit, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Christmas Tree EXEC, CIH (computer virus), Classic Mac OS, CMOS, COM file, Commwarrior (computer virus), Computer security, Computer virus, Computer worm, Conficker, Creeper (program), Cryptovirology, Cyberwarfare, DOS, Eliza (computer virus), Elk Cloner, Email, Form (computer virus), Germany, Graybird, Hare (computer virus), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ..., ILOVEYOU, Industrial control system, INIT 1984, IPod, Iran, Jerusalem (computer virus), Kama Sutra (computer worm), KoKo (computer virus), Lahore, Lamer Exterminator, Leap (computer worm), Linux malware, List of computer worms, MacMag, Malware, Manila, MDEF, Melissa (computer virus), Michelangelo, Michelangelo (computer virus), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Multimedia Messaging Service, Natas (computer virus), Navidad virus, NVIR, OneHalf, Ontario (computer virus), Pakistan, Palm OS viruses, Personal computer, Philippines, Pikachu virus, Ping-Pong virus, Polymorphic code, RavMonE.exe, Saudi Aramco, SCA (computer virus), Scores (computer virus), Scott's Valley, Security through obscurity, SevenDust (computer virus), Shamoon, Shankar's Virus, Simile (computer virus), Smeg Virus Construction Kit, Sobig, Software bug, Spamming, Spyware, Stoned (computer virus), Storm botnet, Storm Worm, Stuxnet, Sunday (computer virus), Switzerland, Symbian, Timeline of computer viruses and worms, Trojan horse (computing), Uranium, VBScript, Virus hoax, Whale (computer virus), Windows 95, Windows 98, Zmist, Zombie (computer science), .exe, 1260 (computer virus), 4K (computer virus), 5lo. Expand index (71 more) »

ABC (computer virus)

ABC, discovered in October 1992, is a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus which infects EXE files and may alter both COM and EXE files.

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Abraxas (computer virus)

Abraxas, also known as Abraxas5, discovered in April 1993, is an encrypted, overwriting, file infecting computer virus which infects.COM and.

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Acid (computer virus)

Acid is a computer virus which infects.COM and.

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Acme (computer virus)

Acme is a computer virus which infects EXE files.

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Actifed (computer virus)

Actifed is a G2-generated encrypted computer virus which infects.COM and.

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Ada (computer virus)

Ada is a computer virus that can affect any of the DOS operating systems.

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Adware

Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.

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AGI-Plan

AGI-Plan was a memory resident DOS file infector first isolated at the Agiplan software company in Germany.

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AI (computer virus)

AI is a computer virus which infects.

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AIDS (computer virus)

AIDS is a computer virus written in Turbo Pascal 3.01a which overwrites COM files.

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Alabama (computer virus)

Alabama is a computer virus, discovered October 1989 on the campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Alcon (computer virus)

Alcon, or RSY (which is more or less as commonly used of a name as Alcon), is a computer virus that was discovered to be spreading in Europe in 1997.

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Alureon

Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4) is a trojan and bootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for: banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data.

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Ambulance (computer virus)

Ambulance or Ambulance Car is a computer virus that infected computers running a DOS operating system in June 1990.

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Anna Kournikova (computer virus)

Anna Kournikova (named by its author as "Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly") was a computer worm written by a 20-year-old Dutch student named Jan de Wit --who called himself 'OnTheFly'-- on February 11, 2001.

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ANTI (computer virus)

ANTI is a computer virus affecting Apple Macintosh computers running classic Mac OS versions up to System 6.

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AntiCMOS

AntiCMOS is a boot virus.

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Antivirus software

Antivirus software, or anti-virus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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ARCV-n

ARCV-n is a term for a large family of viruses authored by the ARCV group through October - November 1992 and polymorphed with the PS-MPC virus generation tool (hence they are very similar).

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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BIOS

BIOS (an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS or PC BIOS) is non-volatile firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup), and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485GHz) from fixed and mobile devices, and building personal area networks (PANs).

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Bomber (computer virus)

Bomber (also known as Commander Bomber) is a DOS polymorphic memory resident computer virus, known for its technique of "patchy infection".

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Botnet

A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots.

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Brain (computer virus)

Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS.

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Byte Bandit

Byte Bandit is a boot sector computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station (Чорнобильська атомна електростанція, Чернобыльская АЭС) is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about north of Kiev.

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Christmas Tree EXEC

Christmas Tree EXEC was the first widely disruptive computer worm, which paralyzed several international computer networks in December 1987.

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CIH (computer virus)

CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus which first emerged in 1998.

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Classic Mac OS

Classic Mac OS is a colloquial term used to describe a series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Inc. from 1984 until 2001.

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CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, abbreviated as CMOS, is a technology for constructing integrated circuits.

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COM file

A COM file is a type of simple executable file.

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Commwarrior (computer virus)

Commwarrior is a Symbian Bluetooth worm that was the first to spread via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Bluetooth.

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Computer security

Cybersecurity, computer security or IT security is the protection of computer systems from theft of or damage to their hardware, software or electronic data, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

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Computer virus

A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

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Computer worm

A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

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Conficker

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.

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Creeper (program)

Creeper was an experimental computer program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971.

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Cryptovirology

Cryptovirology is a field that studies how to use cryptography to design powerful malicious software.

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Cyberwarfare

Cyberwarfare is the use or targeting in a battlespace or warfare context of computers, online control systems and networks.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk operating systems.

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Eliza (computer virus)

Eliza is a computer virus discovered in December 1991.

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Elk Cloner

Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild", i.e., outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Form (computer virus)

Form was a boot sector virus isolated in Switzerland in the summer of 1990 which became very common worldwide.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Graybird

Graybird is a Trojan horse that hides its presence on the compromised computer and downloads files from remote Web sites.

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Hare (computer virus)

The Hare Virus was a destructive computer virus which infected DOS and Windows 95 machines in August 1996.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, Ha-Universita ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim; الجامعة العبرية في القدس, Al-Jami'ah al-Ibriyyah fi al-Quds; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second oldest university, established in 1918, 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel.

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ILOVEYOU

ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000 local time in the Philippines when it started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs".

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Industrial control system

Industrial control system (ICS) is a general term that encompasses several types of control systems and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control.

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INIT 1984

INIT 1984 is a computer virus that was set up to trigger on Macintosh computers running the classic Mac OS on any given Friday the 13th.

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IPod

The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.

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Iran

Iran (ایران), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ایران), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BCE. It was first unified by the Iranian Medes in the seventh century BCE, reaching its greatest territorial size in the sixth century BCE, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from Eastern Europe to the Indus Valley, becoming one of the largest empires in history. The Iranian realm fell to Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE and was divided into several Hellenistic states. An Iranian rebellion culminated in the establishment of the Parthian Empire, which was succeeded in the third century CE by the Sasanian Empire, a leading world power for the next four centuries. Arab Muslims conquered the empire in the seventh century CE, displacing the indigenous faiths of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism with Islam. Iran made major contributions to the Islamic Golden Age that followed, producing many influential figures in art and science. After two centuries, a period of various native Muslim dynasties began, which were later conquered by the Turks and the Mongols. The rise of the Safavids in the 15th century led to the reestablishment of a unified Iranian state and national identity, with the country's conversion to Shia Islam marking a turning point in Iranian and Muslim history. Under Nader Shah, Iran was one of the most powerful states in the 18th century, though by the 19th century, a series of conflicts with the Russian Empire led to significant territorial losses. Popular unrest led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy and the country's first legislature. A 1953 coup instigated by the United Kingdom and the United States resulted in greater autocracy and growing anti-Western resentment. Subsequent unrest against foreign influence and political repression led to the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of an Islamic republic, a political system that includes elements of a parliamentary democracy vetted and supervised by a theocracy governed by an autocratic "Supreme Leader". During the 1980s, the country was engaged in a war with Iraq, which lasted for almost nine years and resulted in a high number of casualties and economic losses for both sides. According to international reports, Iran's human rights record is exceptionally poor. The regime in Iran is undemocratic, and has frequently persecuted and arrested critics of the government and its Supreme Leader. Women's rights in Iran are described as seriously inadequate, and children's rights have been severely violated, with more child offenders being executed in Iran than in any other country in the world. Since the 2000s, Iran's controversial nuclear program has raised concerns, which is part of the basis of the international sanctions against the country. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1, was created on 14 July 2015, aimed to loosen the nuclear sanctions in exchange for Iran's restriction in producing enriched uranium. Iran is a founding member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC, and OPEC. It is a major regional and middle power, and its large reserves of fossil fuels – which include the world's largest natural gas supply and the fourth-largest proven oil reserves – exert considerable influence in international energy security and the world economy. The country's rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the third-largest number in Asia and eleventh-largest in the world. Iran is a multicultural country comprising numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, the largest being Persians (61%), Azeris (16%), Kurds (10%), and Lurs (6%).

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Jerusalem (computer virus)

Jerusalem is a DOS virus first detected in Jerusalem, in October 1987.

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Kama Sutra (computer worm)

The Kama Sutra worm, also known as Blackworm, Nyxem, and Blackmal, is a type of malware (malicious software) that infects PCs using Microsoft Windows.

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KoKo (computer virus)

KoKo Virus is a memory resident computer virus created in March 1991.

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Lahore

Lahore (لاہور, لہور) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi.

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Lamer Exterminator

Lamer Exterminator is a computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga.

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Leap (computer worm)

The Oompa-Loompa malware, also called OSX/Oomp-A or Leap.A, is an application-infecting, LAN-spreading worm for Mac OS X, discovered by the Apple security firm Intego on February 14, 2006.

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Linux malware

Linux malware includes viruses, trojans, worms and other types of malware that affect the Linux operating system.

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List of computer worms

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MacMag

The MacMag virus, also known by various other names, was a computer virus introduced in 1988 by Richard Brandow, who at the time was editor and publisher of MacMag computer magazine in Montréal.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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MDEF

MDEF was a computer virus affecting Macintosh machines.

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Melissa (computer virus)

The Melissa virus was a mass-mailing macro virus.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

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Michelangelo (computer virus)

The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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Multimedia Messaging Service

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network.

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Natas (computer virus)

Natas (Satan spelled backwards) is a computer virus written by James Gentile, a then-18-year-old hacker from San Diego, California who went by the alias of "Little Loc" and later "Priest".

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Navidad virus

W32.Navidad is a mass-mailing worm program or virus, discovered in December 2000, designed to spread through email clients such as Microsoft Outlook while masquerading as an electronic Christmas card.

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NVIR

nVIR is an obsolete computer virus which can replicate on Macintosh computers running any System version from 4.1 to OS 8.

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OneHalf

OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus (hybrid boot and file infector) discovered in October 1994.

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Ontario (computer virus)

This article contains all the viruses of Ontario family.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Palm OS viruses

While some viruses do exist for Palm OS based devices, very few have ever been designed.

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Personal computer

A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pikachu virus

The Pikachu virus, sometimes referred to as Poké Virus, was a computer virus believed to be the first computer virus geared at children due to its incorporation of Pikachu from the Pokémon series.

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Ping-Pong virus

The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the Politecnico di Torino (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy.

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Polymorphic code

In computer terminology, polymorphic code is code that uses a polymorphic engine to mutate while keeping the original algorithm intact.

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RavMonE.exe

RavMonE, also known as RJump, is a Trojan that opens a backdoor on computers running Microsoft Windows.

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Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco (أرامكو السعودية), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, most popularly known just as Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran.

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SCA (computer virus)

The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety.

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Scores (computer virus)

Scores was a computer virus affecting Macintosh machines.

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Scott's Valley

is a computer virus, a member of the Slow virus family and distantly related to the Jerusalem virus family.

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Security through obscurity

In security engineering, security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance on the secrecy of the design or implementation as the main method of providing security for a system or component of a system.

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SevenDust (computer virus)

SevenDust is a computer virus that infects computers running certain versions of the classic Mac OS.

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Shamoon

Shamoon, also known as W32.DisTrack, is a modular computer virus discovered by Seculert in 2012, targeting recent 32-bit NT kernel versions of Microsoft Windows.

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Shankar's Virus

Shankar's Virus (also known as W97M.Marker.o) is a polymorphic computer virus that infects Microsoft Word documents and templates.

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Simile (computer virus)

Win32/Simile (also known as Etap and MetaPHOR) is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly language for Microsoft Windows.

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Smeg Virus Construction Kit

The Smeg Virus Construction Kit (or SMEG) is a polymorphic engine written by virus writer Chris Pile, known as The Black Baron.

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Sobig

The Sobig Worm was a computer worm that infected millions of Internet-connected, Microsoft Windows computers in August 2003.

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Software bug

A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.

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Spamming

Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.

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Spyware

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization sometimes without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, or it may send such information to another entity with the consumer's consent, through cookies.

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Stoned (computer virus)

Stoned is the name of a boot sector computer virus created in 1987.

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Storm botnet

The Storm botnet or Storm worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) is a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that have been linked by the Storm Worm, a Trojan horse spread through e-mail spam.

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Storm Worm

The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a backdoor Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, discovered on January 17, 2007.

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Stuxnet

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm, first uncovered in 2010.

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Sunday (computer virus)

Sunday is a computer virus, a member of the Jerusalem virus family.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Symbian

Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones.

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Timeline of computer viruses and worms

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.

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Trojan horse (computing)

In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.

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VBScript

VBScript ("Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition") is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic.

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Virus hoax

A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat.

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Whale (computer virus)

The Whale virus is a computer virus discovered on July 1, 1990.

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Windows 95

Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows 98

Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis while in development) is a graphical operating system by Microsoft.

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Zmist

Zmist (also known as Z0mbie.Mistfall) is a metamorphic computer virus created by the Russian virus writer known as Z0mbie.

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Zombie (computer science)

In computer science, a zombie is a computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, computer virus or trojan horse program and can be used to perform malicious tasks of one sort or another under remote direction.

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.exe

.exe is a common filename extension denoting an executable file (the main execution point of a computer program) for DOS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Symbian or OS/2.

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1260 (computer virus)

1260, or V2PX, was a demonstration computer virus written in 1989 by Mark Washburn that used a form of polymorphic encryption.

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4K (computer virus)

4k is a computer virus which infects COM files and EXE files.

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5lo

5lo is a computer virus that increases file size and does little more than replicate.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_viruses

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