Sunday, January 4, 2015

Another Nostalgic Trip

Threw out files for a variety of older OS/Networks:

Novell
2.0
3.11
3.12
4.2

Lantastic
6.0
95
etc

Old Time Viruses

Have dealt with a bunch of viruses over the last 20+ years.  While clearing out old files, came across a few- and wanted to list them for posterity

Nimda
Funlove
Sircam
Worm_gone.A
Haptime
W32.HLLW.Hai
VX95.MTX
I Love You
XM/Laroux
VBS Network Worm=VBS_Netlog

Then found some more old files:
W32.Welchia.worm
Bugbear
Klez
IRCTrojan
Opaserve
PurityScan
Happy99
Sircam
Goner
Loveletter
Pretty Park
Magistrate
Navidad
Kak
MTX
Qaz
Sobig
Hybriz

And Finjan had mention of a Russian exploit of an Excel Call, fixed by some service packs.

I looked up up a couple, and Happy99 is considered the first virus to get transmitted by email.

Here's a summary of viruses and timeline at wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms