Infection Vectors

Infection Vectors
Kelly Martin, 2005-03-10

It's time to pick your favorite virus.

Personal favourite 2005-03-10
David Cameron (2 replies)

My personal favourite piece of malware of all time was nimda. Cast your mind back to 2001, not long after Code Red/Blue/Red II ete, to a time when worms also propogated from IIS server to IIS server.

This worm may not have had as large an impact as say slammer, but what made it special was that ...

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Personal favourite 2005-03-14
Zyzio

>As far as I am aware, nothing before or >after has had such a comprehensive range of >methods attack.
Look at my favourite worms family (Gaobot),
9 infection methods and growing after each big finded vulnerability.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.
gaobot.sy.html
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Personal favourite 2005-03-15
Anonymous

I'll second Nimda. Yes, others have since had more infection methods, but nothing was a novel or surprising as Nimda "back in the day".

My runner up has to be SQL Slammer. It was just, for lack of a better term, elegant. Tiny, UDP-based, blazing fast, and murder on network gear. On a fairly...

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Infection Vectors 2005-03-11
Anonymous (1 replies)

You really, really should install Firefox or Opera on Aunt Fern computer :) ...

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Infection Vectors 2005-03-14
Rhys Evans

Using an uncommon web browser is fine until everyone else jumps on the bandwagon.

If we are going to ask our Aunt Ferns to use a non-IE browser then perhaps it's time to evaluate the others. Firefox is just too damned popular....

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My favorite 2005-03-12
Anonymous

trojan.win32.dusbunn because it did nothing but still spread....

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Infection Vectors 2005-03-21
Anonymous

My favourite 'virus' has to be the one from the guys in Africa who say they will give you a share of millions if you give them your credit card details. People actually did and someone who went to Nigeria was ripped off at the airport no less...scary!...

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