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- buyvalve, on 12/10/2007, -1/+93"The Internet is an Internet lover's paradise"
What? - buckeye45, on 12/10/2007, -3/+93"between $10,000,000 and $100,000,000 of damage"
perhaps you could provide a slightly vaguer number. - TuxedoMax, on 12/10/2007, -0/+47the redundancy here is redundant.
- chrisgeleven, on 12/10/2007, -0/+33I have to say that of all of the viruses/worms I have encountered, Blaster was by far the worst.
Being on a college campus at the time, the network and internet was literally brought to its knees by Blaster (when you have thousands of computers rebooting every 60 seconds and basically DDoS each other...it is easy to see how that could happen). I think my computer was the only one in my dorm to not be infected.
It was so bad literally all of the campus IT staff spent several days straight going to every single computer on-campus, patching it, cleaning it, and turning on automatic updates. All of us in the IT major were also enlisted to help too.
The best thing Microsoft ever did was turn on automatic updates and windows firewall by default in XP SP2. That is one of the main reasons why worms are so hard to pass along these days. - thinkingserious, on 12/10/2007, -6/+39I immediately thought of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(computer_game)
- aspec, on 12/10/2007, -2/+28Or... not being stupid is a pretty good cure.
Common sense is a great virus deterrent. Try it sometime. - jasmus, on 12/10/2007, -2/+26Indeed, just as paradise is a paradise lover's paradise.
- thebellmaster1x, on 12/10/2007, -0/+23Worms have caused between 1 and ∞ units of currency in damage.
- ricerfuel, on 12/10/2007, -3/+25I like the way Outlook assisted most of the worms to spread.
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -1/+20Oooh, they have the internet on computers now!
- DeFex, on 12/10/2007, -4/+19free smilies! click here
- daEvan, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14Grammar Nazi has been slain!
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+12But, thats an AWESOME kind of WORMS... not a bad kind.
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -4/+15The spice must flow...
- estvir, on 12/10/2007, -0/+10No idea but here's some fun facts about SQL Slammer:
Patch issued: 7/24/02
Attack date: 1/25/03
Advance notice: 185 days
Impact of attack: Infections doubled every 8.5 seconds
So, sysadmins and computer users had * 185 * days to apply the patch. Procrastination is awesome. - bullsfan03, on 12/10/2007, -1/+10Yes, vaguer. It's a word, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vaguer
- nreynolds, on 12/10/2007, -4/+13well, it IS more secure, but it's not invincible by any means. If the ownership of Mac OS was about 80%, there would definitely be viruses, but the first would likely have been more difficult to make.
- genericface, on 12/10/2007, -1/+10The first viruses/worms were through unix holes; the second generation using Outlook. Worms will go where the users are.
- jikai55, on 12/10/2007, -1/+10Oh, lighten up, it's just $90,000,000 give or take.
- Fawkes, on 12/10/2007, -1/+9"All Time"? Phew, thank God the script kiddies have given up...
- vade79, on 12/10/2007, -0/+8I was about to comment on the same thing, that was by far the most wide-spread out-of-the-box exploit I can recall. This guy made a horrible list, even by the stats in his own list it doesn't add up; if it was a list about what is the oldest worm, then #1 is right...but it said the worst.
- doctordbx, on 12/10/2007, -3/+9You love a machine? Does it love you back? Are you going to have little half human / half macs?
Do your parents know? - EXreaction, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Yep, the Blaster worm was the only worm I was ever infected with.
One day I decided to connect my PC (which was never connected to the net before) to our dial up connection to download some patches for Far Cry (since it had major problems with the nVidia 6 series at first) and to get Direct X 9.0c. I went only to the microsoft website with IE6 to get DX 9.0c, and before I could even find it my machine was infected with the Blaster worm.
Of course the blaster worm is easy to get rid of if you know what to do (just kill the task in taskmanager and delete the file), but the problem was that any unpatched machine connected to the internet was vulnerable, even if you were not browsing the internet (and that many people, including myself at the time, didn't know enough about it to fix it). - Asianwaste, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4Ah Blaster. Technically, it is absolutely not impressive at all. What made it so infamous was that it was ingenious in concept. The idea was to take advantage of the fact that hardly anyone bothered to go to MS Windows update and download the latest security patches.
- tba2287, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4Since Mac OS X is UNIX-based, I wonder how they would've stood up against something like the Morris Worm? Yeah, Macs are generally more secure, but flavors of *Nix aren't impervious. No OS is.
- Speed, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4You know why people enjoy taking down Microsoft products? Because there are more users of Windows than OSX.
- exec0extreme, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4More explanation on the Morris Worm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm - h4mx0r, on 12/10/2007, -1/+5I'll get you for that!
- jasmus, on 12/10/2007, -1/+4looks a little cloudy out, better prepare for *****.
- ajretz, on 12/10/2007, -2/+5What about the Da Vinci virus?
- newbill123, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3How about back in the days where the term "computers" referred to desks of women arranged so that they could solve a structured problem through manual computation? Did they never have any intestinal worms back then?
- bigsteve, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3Unix variants and the fact that there are simply less worms has a lot more to do with the inherent superior Unix security model then the lack of users.
- Asianwaste, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3Dear god-emperors of Dune, why do I get that reference???
- mooseofshadows, on 12/10/2007, -1/+4An article about computer worms and the first thing I see is a woman in a tight t-shirt?
Not exactly what I was expecting... - doctordbx, on 12/10/2007, -1/+4How does one measure the economics of a virus infection? I mean... in some cases I can understand the figures in terms of lost productivity etc. but 6000 Unix machines in 1988 running in what I can ascertain to be only research and military environment... and even then only increased load.. costing $10 million? What a load of *****.
- CraigJ, on 12/10/2007, -3/+6worm != virus
virus requires some kind of interaction by the user (open an attachment, etc)
worm takes advantage of defects in system security and require no interaction by the user (open SQL port, for example) - neko, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3Not all of them are worms, but dugg anyway.
- init100, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3Exactly. In addition, not only numbers are interesting for the bad guys. One fact that should bring Unix up as an attractive target is that Unix machines are often used at major network nodes, with high performance computers connected to high-bandwidth networks. In addition, Unix is usually used for high-value targets.
- jbrevik, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3An the biggest virus of them all is..............Norton Antivirus. TADA!
- slwrochild, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2I was wondering the exact same thing, where does he get all these damages values from, and how are they figured out?
- CraigJ, on 12/10/2007, -1/+3From the article you cited:"Viruses are sometimes confused with computer worms and Trojan horses. A worm can spread itself to other computers without needing to be transferred as part of a host"
Name a virus that required no user interaction to initially infect the host. - bigsteve, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Servers. *nix servers still vastly outnumber *nix desktop users no matter how popular Ubuntu gets.
- FurtThePirate, on 12/10/2007, -2/+4Because There are 100s of millions of windows users...
- cptl, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a - wordglue, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Come on man, that's clearly obvious.
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2How do they find these people? If I created a worm, malicious or not, youd bet Id be deleting everything, and hiding. I understand they can trace it back if it's a smaller worm, but something that becomes that big must be hard to trace to the originator?
- threemagic, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Because in 1988 there were literally tens of people using Unix???
- robsonde, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2about three of them I would call a virus and not a worm......
- pete6677, on 12/10/2007, -3/+5Worst virus ever: Norton Internet "security". Its done more damage to more computers than every virus combined.
- thefinger, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2so ... there's a category for the 10 best worms??
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