it’s april fools day and for some reason the virus developers seem to like this date and time the release of their “babies.” i did some research (what i got is not much so feel free to correct me) and listed the top april 1 viruses (or viruses that appeared/current in this month) in the past decade.
1998 – Join the Crew, CIH
1999 – Melissa
2000 – Email – prettypark (this was also when the infamous IT PINOY-made iloveyou virus swept the US, UK etc.)
2001 – Laroux/Divi/VCX.A
2002 – Magistr (on this year, the creator of melissa virus got a 20yrs sentence)
2003 – WTC Survivor (a virus spin-off to the 911 attacks)
2004 – Netski/Sober/Bagle
2005 – Zafi/Netski
2006 – w32.0401.worm infects humans! (okay this one is scary, kindda “johnny mnemonic” stuff, it claims this virus affects ordinary humans via “neural interface”)
2007 – Fubalca/Sollow
2008 – Tilebot-KT
and this year, it would be Conflicker.c!
1999 – Melissa
2000 – Email – prettypark (this was also when the infamous IT PINOY-made iloveyou virus swept the US, UK etc.)
2001 – Laroux/Divi/VCX.A
2002 – Magistr (on this year, the creator of melissa virus got a 20yrs sentence)
2003 – WTC Survivor (a virus spin-off to the 911 attacks)
2004 – Netski/Sober/Bagle
2005 – Zafi/Netski
2006 – w32.0401.worm infects humans! (okay this one is scary, kindda “johnny mnemonic” stuff, it claims this virus affects ordinary humans via “neural interface”)
2007 – Fubalca/Sollow
2008 – Tilebot-KT
and this year, it would be Conflicker.c!
reviewing the viruses in the past 10yrs, we would see how they have matured… which is kindda kewl (what? yeah let’s admit it!) nonetheless, these are but some things people do that spices up our tech life…
Waiting for them to attack… 😀 Seems Google's CADIE had struck the world first.
It is cyberworld, doomed!, indeed!Bdw, correct me if I am wrong, I think it's Conficker( http://technologianblogs.blogspot.com/2009/03/beware-of-conficker-worm.html ) not Conflicker
haha you're right peenkfrik!@technologian, seems like a nice catch! but ive been seeing other spaces where they spelled it that way… 🙂
Waiting for them to attack… 😀 Seems Google’s CADIE had struck the world first.
It is cyberworld, doomed!, indeed!Bdw, correct me if I am wrong, I think it’s Conficker( http://technologianblogs.blogspot.com/2009/03/beware-of-conficker-worm.html ) not Conflicker
haha you’re right peenkfrik!@technologian, seems like a nice catch! but ive been seeing other spaces where they spelled it that way… 🙂