a selection of the most famous and dangerous viruses in the history of the Internet.
Unnamed virus (progenitor of all viruses)
David Ferbrač in his book "pathology of the video's of viruses" as an example of the progenitor virus causes the namely "Untitled", created in 1980, for the Apple IIcomputer, however, it is better described as "zero", because it appeared as a product strictly scientific research, and its not released. Harm Unnamed First Virus unable to, but only the team that intercepted and watched, how many times it has been copied.
Brain
It gives most people the Palm, because it was not written in the laboratory. Established in 1986, the brothers Amdžatom and Bazitom in Pakistan, Alvi, Brain was supposed to punish Cyber-pirates steals software company of brothers, but the damage, as such, it is satisfactory.
Michelangelo ("March6»)
At the time of its establishment in the year 1991, Michelangelo was one of the most dangerous viruses for MS DOS. Once in the computer, the virus had not filed any signs of life until March 6, the birthday of the great sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti. In this day of data on thousands of computers have been destroyed.
A year later, the virus again asserted itself. Sponsors spread the rumour that this time the contamination of several million computers. "Doomsday" is the holders of PCS were waiting in horror, but ... nothing happened. However, the panic of people manage to use antivirus programs because in reality harm viruses no longer doubted by no one.
Melissa
"Melissa" computer World March 26, 1999 was the year when the "contagion" of raspolzalas′ to the mail client Microsoft Outlook and arranged a spam-dispatch itself the first 50 recipients. Large companies, like Intel and Microsoft had to temporarily give up on corporate email services, until the specialists do not have the virus.
I Love You, Loveletter, The Love Bug
Despite such a cute name, I Love Letter many experts consider the most malicious virus in the history of the Internet. In 2000, people discovered in his electronic mailbox, an email with the subject "I Love You" and contains an attachment, where declarations of love tailsâ wrecker that once in the computer, then immediately began to steal passwords. According to estimates, about 10% of specialists all computers were infected, and the overall damage estimated at $ 5.5 billion.
Flame
One of the recent viruses, nadelavših noise, Flame is 2012 the year of issue. He was able to collect various data, change settings on your computer, record sound and harm in other ways. The virus struck computers running operating systems Microsoft Windows: XP, Vista, 7.
September 17, 2012 year Kaspersky Lab released a recording stating that the development of Flame began in 2006, and was conducted by several groups of hackers.
WireLurker
The virus struck on the head by the owners of Apple technology in September 2014 years. Needless to say both were surprised people still considered that viruses for iOS and OS X doesn't exist?
Source WireLurker is a Chinese shop on Maiyadi App Store, in the directory which found about 450 programmes with a virus in the boot. Infecting an iMac or Macbook, the virus was waiting in the wings and pass through the iOS device when connecting the last USB to your computer.
According to researchers, the virus can independently generate new infected applications control the iOS device and install the software, even if the device did not pass the procedure jailbreak.
The company Apple has reacted quickly and blocked the launch all the applications in the depths of which is WireLurker, and once again reminded users about unsafe installation of software from an untrusted source.