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Featured EntryNavidad is a mass-mailer worm that displays messages in Spanish. The worm is capable of making the computer unusable and whether or not this is intentional is uncertain, as the code has numerous bugs. "Navidad" means "Christmas" in Spanish. It ended up causing very little actual damage as it alerted users of its presence from the time it infected the system and only became destructive if it was not removed quickly. Visually, the worm puts on a bit of a show, first loading an error message, then placing an icon in the system tray informing the user "we are watching". It then presents a button it orders the user to never press. If the user does, the worm informs the user that they have just destroyed their computer. |
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Featured ImageMonopoly is a Visual Basic worm coded by Zulu, creator of Bubbleboy and Stages. Its most prominent feature is the image of a Monopoly-style board with the face of Bill Gates placed over that of the Monopoly man. No reported incidents of the worm in the wild seem to exist and the worm was not malicious, so it likely never did any damage. When opened, the worm first displays a message saying "Bill Gates is guilty of monopoly. Here is the proof.". When the user clicks on "OK", the worm then displays a window showing the image of about half of a modified Monopoly board, with Bill Gates popping out of the second "O". |
Featured VideoOpaserv is a network worm with many different variants. One thing common to all Opaserv variants is that they carry a trojan that either updates the worm by downloading a new copy from a particular site, or it destroys the operating system. It caused a major worldwide epidemic in the fall of 2002, sometimes beating out other prominent worms of the time including Klez and Tanatos. Some of its variants had a particularly interesting payload intended to scare or confuse the user. One variant, before destroying the system, displays a message at boot up tricking the user into thinking their copy of Windows is illegal and they are in violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Someone thought it would be a good idea to use this as their desktop wallpaper. |
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