Anyone got a good link for the fastest spreading, greatest infestation computer virus?

[dug777]

Cheers folks :beer:

 

[Rogue]

n/m, you were right, it appears to be MyDoom. Lovebug was a wicked one too though, probably the first of massive proportions.

 

[jaedaliu]

symantec and probably most other antivirus websites will have the information you're looking for. you'll just need to do some searchwork.

 

[dug777]

anyone else?

 

[PingSpike]

The saddest part about the most widespread mass infecting viruses was that they didn't spread because of clever programming or a massive security exploit...they spread through sheer mass stupidity of the user base.

 

[Sqube]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The saddest part about the most widespread mass infecting viruses was that they didn't spread because of clever programming or a massive security exploit...they spread through sheer mass stupidity of the user base.

Sad, but true.

At least the masses are keeping virus writers (relatively) dumb; there's really not a lot of people working hard to create bugs that can spread by themselves when it's been demonstrated time and again that a bug that a moran has to open will still spread at an obscene rate.

Thanks, masses!

 

[SagaLore]

Nimda.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: Sqube

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The saddest part about the most widespread mass infecting viruses was that they didn't spread because of clever programming or a massive security exploit...they spread through sheer mass stupidity of the user base.

Sad, but true.

At least the masses are keeping virus writers (relatively) dumb; there's really not a lot of people working hard to create bugs that can spread by themselves when it's been demonstrated time and again that a bug that a moran has to open will still spread at an obscene rate.

Thanks, masses!

Well, what about that RPC Trojan from a year ago. That wasn't a "virus" per say, but that didn't involve any user intervention at all, right? Just be online, without a firewall/router, and you were screwed. Reboots every 60 seconds. (Was it blaster?!?!)



KS

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze

Well, what about that RPC Trojan from a year ago. That wasn't a "virus" per say, but that didn't involve any user intervention at all, right? Just be online, without a firewall/router, and you were screwed. Reboots every 60 seconds. (Was it blaster?!?!)


KS

Yeah, I think it was blaster. I still have fixblast.exe from symantec sitting in my it tools folder somewhere. I think that had a few means of infection since we were behind a firewall and only one machine got it.

There are some clever ones out there, but most of the big huge ones were amazingly retarded in design.