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NAME

FIRST APPEARANCE

INFECTS

911

April 3

local networks

Adn-A

August 10

Excel 97

Afeto

November 28

internet worm

Alarm

August 9

makes alarm sounds

AOL

January 21

AOL internet

Armagid

January 1

Word 97 macro

Assilem

February 21

Word 97

Babylonia

February 11

Portable Executable  and Help files in Win 95/98

Backdoor.Subseven
see also BackDoor-G

reappearance March14
updated version

is remote access program shared through newsgroups

Bad Info

August 9

replaces owners info with "Some fool owns this"

Barisada

August 1

Excel macro

Barok

May 8

steals passwords

Bearded

March 29

desktop wallpaper

Beliers

January 27

Excel macro, Netscape bookmarks

Bleah

April 28

MBR

Blebla

November 16

internet worm

Brain Spy

November 27

Win 9x - internet backdoor trojan

Brown Orifice

August 7

Netscape & Java Applet Code

Bymer

October 31

Win 9x

Cap

January 26

MS Word

Cartman

March 23

Word

Chameleon

September 22

Macro Virus

Cobra

November 21

Word 97

Codemas

July 13

MS & Excel 97/2000

Cool Not

May 31

email

Crono

August 9

macro virus

Cuenta

September 20

Word 97

Cybernet

May 26

Excel (*.xls) and Word (*.doc)

Dana

August 8

hoax in Portugese

Dilbert

July 21

email

Divi

January 18

Excel macro

Doeii

August 18

Word Macro

Donald Duck

September 6

trojan

DOS/AntiOL

July 18

Denial of Service for Outlook 97, 98, & 2000, Outlook Express 4.0 thru 5.01

Draft

November 30

worm

Eight 941

February 22

Word 97

ExploreZip.worm.f

September 12

internet worm for 32-bit systems

Fake

August 9

simulates formatting C:\ to scare operator

Feliz

January 1

Win

FF

January 18

MS Word & Win boot

Fireburn

May 31

Outlook & mIRC

Fool

May 25

IRC

Fool.K

September 14

mIRC

Forgoten

December 12

VBS

Friend Mess

May 11

Win 95, 98

Funny

September 14

internet worm

Generic@mm

August 9

MS Word 97, email

Ghost

August 9

flashes insulting messages

Girl Thing

August 7

a hoax in Dutch

GWV

May 31

Gnutella

Haiku

February 11

Email

How are you?

May 24

no infection - actually a SPAM by connecting to a website

Hubad

February 21

Word 97

Hybris

October 16

internet worm/trojan

Icon Dance

March 27

desktop icons

Inst 98

January 1

C:\

Inta

January 12

Win 2000

Irok

March 30

IRC, MS Outlook

IWorm_Melting

March 20

monitor

Jean

November 24

worm

Jer

July 5

IRC Channels

Jini

November 13

Excel 97

Joke

May 4

IRC, email, graphics and sound files

Kak

January 18
reappearance March 29

Win 95/98 with Outlook Express 5.0

Kozog

November 30

trojan worm

Lara

November 27

internet worm

Lenni

March 20

Word 97, C:\

Liberty Palm

August 30

3COM Palm

Lights

August 9

black square bounces around screen

Logo

October 11

trojan infecting web-based discussion groups

Love Letter

May 4

IRC, MS Outlook, Win 98, 2000, 95 w/ enabled Script Hosting, graphics and music files

Lucky

January 18

Windows favorites

Maco Ble

July 21

MS Word 97 and 2000 in Russian language

Melting

March 17

MS Outlook

Mill

December 27

MIRC, Outlook

Model

August 1

Word 97 Macro

Msinit

September 26

internet worm

MSTU

October 24

com/exe files

MTX

September 19

Win 9x, NT, ME

Music

November 22

internet worm

Myna

May 23

Word 97

Navidad

November 3

internet worm

Neg

April 26

Excel in Win 3.x, 9x

Netlog

March 7

VBS, file sharing

New Love

May 19

boot, MS Outlook

Nowobler

September 7

email

Nsi

July 7

Word 97 Macro

Outlaw

February 15

MS Word

Panther

June 14

MS Word

Party

September 20

internet worm, mIRC, Outlook

Passbox

September 20

Word 97

Phage

September 21

Palm OS Virus

Pica

July 5

IRC Channels, MS Outlook

Pikachu

August 24

worm

Plage 2000

January 14

 

Pretty Park

reappearance March13

 

Proverb

March 23

Word 97

QAZ

August 7

Win32 backdoor, internet worm

QDel121

November 7

trojan

QZap

November 6

trojan

Quatro

September 12

email worm

Rendra

August 1

Word 97 Macro

Resume

May 27

MS Word

Romeo and Juliet

November 16

internet worm

Russ

January 10

no infection (bad joke)

Scary

November 3

worm

Scrambler

May 31

IRC, MP3

Scrap File

June 18

gif, bmp. jpg, MS Outlook

Seeker

October 23

trojan infecting MS Windows

Shockwave

December 1

picture files

SHS

May 19

Win 95/98 Scrap Object Files

Silver

July 20

internet, IRC, back door

Simpsons

June 29

deletes all files on C:\, A:\, D:\, B:\

Smash

July 20

Win 95, 98

Sonic

November 1

Win 32

South Park

May 11

German language email

Stages

July 12

mIRC, Perch, email

Stoned

January 24

MBR & boot sectors

Stream

September 5

Win 2000

Tam

October 26

all Win

Timofon

June 6

GSM cellular phones

Trin00

February 11
reappearance March 29

a DoS program used to make denial of service attacks

Vale

January 18

Word 97, Office 2000, Outlook

Vapor

September 21

Palm OS trojan

Vcode

August 7

Excel 97

Venus

January 18

Word 97 Macro

Verlor

January 25

Word 97 macro

Wahaha12

May 24

Not infectious - is a Spam

Web TV

March 22

Web TV appliances

Win 95 Matrix

April 3

Win 95, 98

Win Ext

February 16

MS Outlook

 

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