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9.1 |
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Introduction
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9.2 |
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Early History of Viruses
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9.2.1 |
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Late 1987
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9.2.1.1 |
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Pakistani or Brain Virus
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9.2.1.2 |
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The Lehigh Virus
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9.2.1.3 |
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Christmas Tree Worm
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9.2.2 |
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Early 1988
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9.2.3 |
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Stoned/New Zealand/Marijuana Virus
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9.3 |
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Virus Varieties
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9.3.1 |
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Virus Factories/Code Generators
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9.3.2 |
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Program Infector Viruses
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9.3.2.1 |
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Polymorphic Viruses
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9.3.2.2 |
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Stealth Viruses
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9.3.2.3 |
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Tunneling Viruses
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9.3.2.4 |
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Retroviruses
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9.3.2.5 |
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Memory-Resident Viruses
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9.3.2.6 |
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Nonresident Infectors
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9.3.2.7 |
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Prependers, Appenders, Overwriters, and Midfile Infectors
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9.3.2.8 |
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Multipartite Viruses
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9.3.3 |
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Boot Viruses
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9.4 |
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Microsoft Software and Recent Viruses
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9.4.1 |
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August 1995: Windows 95 Released
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9.4.2 |
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August 1995: MS-Word Macro Viruses Appear
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9.4.3 |
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July 1996: First Excel Virus-XM/Laroux.a
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9.4.4 |
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January 1997: Office 97 Released
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9.4.5 |
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February 1997: First E-mailing Virus-WM/ShareFun.a
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9.4.6 |
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March 1998: First Access Virus-A97/AccessiV.a
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9.4.7 |
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June 1998: Windows 98 Released
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9.4.8 |
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September 1998: First Office Cross-Infector-O97/Shiver.a
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9.4.9 |
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November 1998: First .vbs Virus-VBS/VBSFirst
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9.4.10 |
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December 1998: First PowerPoint Virus-PP97/Attach.a
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9.4.11 |
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January 1999: First Modern Worm-Happy99@m
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9.4.12 |
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March 1999: First Outlook Mass Mailer-W97/Melissa.a@mm
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9.4.13 |
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April 1999: First Virus to Attempt to Flash ROM-CIH Virus
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9.4.14 |
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June 1999: First Worm to Spread by Both Mass Mailing and Network Shares-Zipped Files
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9.4.15 |
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October 1999: First Self-Mailing Virus Able to Run Without Opening an E-mail-JS/Kak@m
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9.4.16 |
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December 1999: W32/Babylonia.a@mm
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9.4.17 |
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May 2000: Fastest Spreader?-VBS/LoveLetter.a@mm
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9.4.18 |
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October 2000: W32/Hybris@mm
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9.4.19 |
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February 2001: VBS/VBSWG.J@mm (also known as OnTheFly, Anna Kournikova)
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9.4.20 |
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March 2001: W32/Magistr@mm
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9.4.21 |
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May 2001: VBS/VBSWG.X@mm (a.k.a. Homepage)
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9.4.22 |
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July 2001: W32/CodeRed
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9.4.23 |
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August 2001: W32/CodeRed II (a.k.a. CodeRed.C)
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9.4.24 |
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September 2001: W32/Nimda.a@mm
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9.5 |
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Worms
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9.5.1 |
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Prevention of Worms and Other E-mail-Carried Malicious Code
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9.5.2 |
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Morris Worm of 1988
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9.6 |
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Non-Replicating Threats
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9.6.1 |
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SubSeven
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9.6.2 |
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Multidropper
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9.6.3 |
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Distributed Denial-of-Service Programs
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9.6.4 |
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The Web: Java, ActiveX, Scripts, and HTML
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9.7 |
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Hoaxes
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10.0 |
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Conclusion
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