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The 10 Most Destructive PC Viruses Of All Time - TechAmok
The 10 Most Destructive PC Viruses Of All Time - [security] 09:00 PM EDT - Jul,05 2006 - post a comment Computer viruses are like real-life viruses: When they're flying around
infecting every PC (or person) in sight, they're scary. But after the
fact...well, they're rather interesting, albeit in a gory kind of way. With this
in mind,
TechWeb shamelessly present, in chronological order, the 10 most destructive
viruses of all time
Melissa (1999) - Estimated Damage: 300 to 600 million dollars
On Friday, March 26, 1999, W97M/Melissa became front-page news across the
globe. Estimates have indicated that this Word macro script infected 15 to 20
percent of all business PCs. The virus spread so rapidly that Intel, Microsoft,
and a number of other companies that used Outlook were forced to shut down their
entire e-mail systems in order to contain the damage.
The virus used Microsoft Outlook to e-mail itself to 50 names on a user's
contact list. The e-mail message contained the sentence, "Here is that document
you asked for...don't show anyone else. ;-)," with an attached Word document.
Clicking open the .DOC file -- and thousands of unsuspecting users did so --
allowed the virus to infect the host and repeat the replication. Adding insult
to injury, when activated, this virus modified users' Word documents with quotes
from the animated TV show "The Simpsons."
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