Top 5 Computer Viruses

                                 

1.  Storm Virus

Storm gets its name from the entice that's its methodology of infection.

Starting in early 2007, users began receiving emails with the topic line, "230 dead as storm batters Europe," and a link to the story.

Don't click! No! you have instead been diode to AN infected web site.

2.  Sasser Virus

The Sasser worm was a harmful beast once it hit in 2004, investigation huge targets like British Coast Guard Universities, hospitals and enormous companies all reported  infections that caused computers to repeatedly crash.

3.  Nimda Virus

Nimda (that's "admin" spelled backward) hit the virus scene in 2001 and quickly (very quickly) rose to the highest.

In just twenty two minutes, Nimda went from a nothing to being the foremost widespread bug on Earth. How?

It unfold via email, via websites, via server vulnerabilities. It just about had all the bases coated. It even used some previous backdoors displayed by past viruses to urge into servers and muck up net traffic.

4. Melissa Virus

Melissa was a brand new virus for a brand new age: the e-mail age. Forget floppies, this one was among the primary to unfold via the dreadful email attachment.

It additionally pioneered the art of breaking into your address book and causation itself to all or any your contacts. The virus would arrive via AN innocent-looking email that told you to open a file… and why would you open a document from a stranger? you would not.

5.  Code Red I and II

The Code Red viruses were terribly, terribly sneaky worms.

They did not need you {to do|to try to to|to try ANd do} something to become infected (you did not have to be compelled to open an attachment or transfer a file); all it took was an energetic net affiliation for the virus to require advantage of a flaw within the Windows software system. And what did the viruses do?

Well, for one, they turned your pc into a slave, property somebody offsite operate it remotely.