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2. Brontok - Wikipedia

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   Brontok originated in Indonesia. It was first discovered in 2005. The name refers to elang brontok, a bird species native to South & Southeast Asia. It arrives as an attachment of e-mail named kangen.exe (kangen itself means "to miss someone/thing"). The virus/email itself contains a message in Indonesian (and some English).

3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   Late March: Brontok variant N was found in late March. Brontok was a mass-email worm and the origin for the worm was from Indonesia. June: Starbucks is a virus that infects StarOffice and OpenOffice. Late September: Stration or Warezov worm first discovered. Development of Stuxnet is presumed to have been started between 2005 and 2006.

4. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Computer virus. Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles. A computer virus [1] is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.

5. Comparison of computer viruses - Wikipedia

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   Leap - Mac OS X Trojan horse. Shamoon a wiper virus with stolen digital certificates destroyed over 35,000 computers owned by Saudi Aramco. Storm Worm - A Windows trojan horse that forms the Storm botnet. Stuxnet First destructive ICS -targeting Trojan which destroyed part of Iran 's nuclear program.

6. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is any malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a standard program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [1]

7. Stoned (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Stoned (computer virus) Hex dump showing "Your PC is now Stoned!" statement at the last 512-byte sector of Master Boot Record. Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington, New Zealand. [1] [2] By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and ...

8. Brain (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Original author (s) Amjad Farooq Alvi. Initial release. 19 January 1986. Platform. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC compatibles. Type. Boot sector computer virus. Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form on 19 January 1986, [1] and is considered to be the first computer virus for the IBM Personal ...

9. CIH (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus that first emerged in 1998. Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives and, in some cases, destroying the system BIOS. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau (陳盈豪, pinyin: Chén ...