3 - List of Computer Viruses and Antiviruses

 

    

List of Computer Virus

1.       Morris Worm or the “Great Worm”

It’s believed that Morris Worm infected around 6,000 major Unix machines. Created to highlight security flaws in Unix systems, its founder Robert Morris,

2.       Nimda

Though its main target is believed to be internet Servers running Windows NT and 2000, Nimda also affected regular users’ PCs running Windows in 2001. 

3.       ILOVEYOU

Romantic as it sounds, the ILOVEYOU virus is not the kind of a gift you’d want to receive on Valentine’s Day. 

The virus used emails as a transmission channel, disguising itself as a love letter from one of its victim’s contacts. The malware was hidden in the attachment called “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs”. Clicking on it activated a Visual Basic script (a programming language which allows programmers to modify code), and the worm started overwriting random files on the user’s PC.

ILOVEYOU infected over ten million Windows PCs.

 

4.       SQL Slammer

The crash of the Bank of America’s ATM service, and cancellation of several Continental Airlines flights It sparked at 05:30 UTC on January 25, 2003, infecting its first server. Once the job was done, Slammer spread rapidly, doubling the number of victims every few seconds, and just ten minutes after it was released in the wild, the number of infected computers grew to 75,000.

5.       Stuxnet

Stuxnet was developed by the US and Israeli government engineers to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. 

 

6.       CryptoLocker

 It’s ransomware

7.       Conficker

8.       Tinba

9.       Welchia

10.   Shlayer

11.   Cyborg Ransomware

12.   GoBrut

13.   Jokeroo

14.   CryptoMix Clop Ransomware

15.   Trojan Glupteba

16.   MyDoom

17.   Storm Worm

18.   Sasser & Netsky

19.   Anna Kournikova

List of Computer Virus

 

1.       Quick Heal Total Security

2.       Norton AntiVirus Plus

3.       Avira Antivirus Pro

4.       Kaspersky Anti-Virus

5.       ESET NOD32 Antivirus

6.       Bitdefender Antivirus Plus

7.       F-Secure Antivirus SAFE

8.       Bullguard Antivirus

9.       Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security

10.   Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus

11.   Panda Security Antivirus

12.   G-Data Antivirus

13.   Comodo Windows Antivirus

14.   EScan Antivirus

15.   Vipre Antivirus

16.   TrustPort Antivirus

17.   Pareto Logic Antivirus

    18.   Zone Alarm Antivirus