History of Malware in the World

1949, Theory of Self-replicating programs (programs that can replicate) were first introduced.
1981, the first computer virus that attacks the Apple operating system emerged and spread through two programs in Texas pirated computer games.
1983, Fred Cohen implement the standard definition for computer virus.
1986, boot sector virus was first discovered, it attacks the PC (personal computer) with the name of the Brain virus created by two programmers from Pakistan named Basit and Amjad. In this year also introduced the first time the virus capable of infecting a file, named Virdem (Virus Demo) made in Germany.
1987, the virus that can infect the two types of files. COM and. EXE is found in Hebrews Israeli universities. The virus is named Jerusalem and still have errors (bugs) which cause the virus to infect repeated (reinfection) files that have been previously infected. In this year also found the virus and Vienna Stoned, Stoned virus capable of infecting the MBR (master boot record) and made by a university student in Wellington New Zealand, while the Vienna virus was made by a secondary student in Austria.
1989, The emergence of the virus from Bulgaria named Dark Avenger was made by someone who claims to be the Dark Avenger. This virus is a type of virus that attacks the virus. In this year also a virus that infects files. EXE with stealth capabilities are found, the virus is named Frodo and destruction of hard drives will do if the virus goes after 22 September each year.
1991, Indonesia was first discovered virus, the virus is named Den Zuko and there are two variants. The virus was made by Denny Yanuar Ramadhani from Bandung Indonesia. The virus is able to remove (disinfect) disks that have been infected by the virus Brain. This is a proof of a computer virus that attacks the other computer viruses. In this year also named Tequila born virus, this virus has the ability Stealth, Polymorphic, Multipartition and also anti-antivirus.
1992, boot sector virus with the name Michelongelo managed to infect more than 5 million computers worldwide. In this year also VCL (Virus Creation Laboratory) was first created,. VCL is a tool kit that can be for creating computer viruses instantly, meaning the virus can be made by anyone without the need for programming knowledge from the manufacturer.
1994, with the name of the Pathogen virus appeared in the UK. This virus has the ability polymorphic, made by a man who called himself the Black Baron, the creator managed to get caught and jailed.
1995, macro viruses are created at that time began to infect the Microsoft Word document types.
1996, a macro virus that infects files created office Word and Excel.
1997, There are approximately 12 000 new viruses are created and spread throughout the world.
1998, the virus will prove benama StrangeBrew virus capable of infecting files Java.Java itself is platform ever in the proud-proud to be the predicate "virus free" him. In this year also two teenage children from California managed to break into and control of more than 500 government and military computer systems in America.
1999, with the name W97M/Melissa macro virus is present. The virus is capable of spreading itself via electronic messages (e-mail) and managed to infect about 1 million computers worldwide. In other places the CIH virus spreads rapidly in Korea and causing financial loss of approximately U.S. $ 250 million, the CIH virus itself is a virus that has the ability to damage the hardware in a way mengoverwrite BIOS.
2000, the ILOVEYOU virus (Love Bug) are similar to the Melissa virus spreads via email and pick the action of removing some multimedia files such as. MP3,. MP2 etc.. This virus has the ability to steal valuable information and sends the infected victim's author.
2001, with the name of the CodeRed worm managed to infect more than 300,000 computers worldwide and caused kerugain amounting to approximately U.S. $ 2.5 billion.
2002, W97M/Melissa virus maker arrested by federal authorities and imprisoned for 20 months. In this year also appeared Bugbear worm that has a wide range of techniques of infection with several complex methods and also the birth of the Nimda worm (an inverted syllable of the word "Admin") and Klez.
2003, is the glory years of the worm. Slammer worm with the name created and managed no less than 75,000 infected computers worldwide within 10 minutes after created. This worm has the fastest speed of reproduction and distribution of 8.5 seconds / worm. In this year also was born and Sobig worm is a worm that is able to perform large-scale spam activity, every e-mail sent will have the sender's name \ n big@boss.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you needJavaScript enabled to view it <! - document.write ("); / / ->, a worm that has the rank of MM (Mass mailer) has resulted in economic losses of U.S. $ 29.7 billion. Not to mention the complete terror Sobig worm, the Blaster worm appeared again attacked the service RPC (Remote Procedure Call) on the Windows operating system, the worm who never made a party scrambling Microsoft has a speed of 4000 the spread of infection / hour.
2004, with the name of the MyDoom worm pervirusan rule the world with high infection rates and has a 30% bandwidth used internauts (internet users) worldwide. Worm that bears the high risk rating of several antivirus vendors had destroyed a power greater than Sobig worm and Welchia, other than that this worm also perform a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) to the site www.sco.com and www.microsoft.com and also block some antivirus sites. 7 JULY 2007


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