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 Remember to maintain the most current anti-virus software program for your system. This is a list of the more prevalent infectors found by virus researchers in 2001.

NAME

FIRST APPEARANCE

INFECTS

Achis

October 17

email

Adore

April 5

Linux backdoor worm

Aliz

November 20

worm

Angel

March 23

worm

Ants

October 24

worm

AOL Cool

January 30

AOL trojan

Apost

September 3

worm

Asylum

August 28

backdoor

Baby Pic

February 12

internet worm

BadTrans

April 14

backdoor worm

BadTrans.B

November 24

trojan

Bin Laden

October 24

worm - ICQ email addresses

Bionet

June 1

backdoor

Carnival

February 28

VBS worm

Carrytone

December 22

Win NT mass mailer worm

Cartolina

February 8

worm

Challenge

February 27

VBS

Cheese

May 17

Linux backdoor fixer

Choke

June 20

MSN Messenger worm

Code Blue

September 7

MS IIS worm

Code Red or Bady

July 20

MS IIS worm, Win 2000 backdoor

Cool Site

December 19

mass mailer worm

Creepy

September 12

mass emailer worm

Cuerpo

August 31

worm

Danschl.A, Lantern, or Malantern

December 11

trojan

Davinia

January 15

internet worm

Demiurg

January 16

Excel

Dion

October 29

(doesn't work)

DlDer

December 28

trojan

Eira

November 30

email worm

Elkern

October 26

Win 98

Fever

May 29

internet worm

Finaldo

November 6

mass mailer worm

Futs

May 14

Novell Netware trojan

Gnuman Mandragore

February 27

Gnutella trojan worm

Gogga

June 15

trojan

Gokar

December 13

email, IRC, & IIS worm

Goner

December 4

Windows, ICQ

Grate

December 21

does not exist

Gribble

September 13

trojan

Hack Tack

September 5

backdoor

Hadra

June 13

internet worm

Hai

August 28

worm

Happytime (VBSWG.X@mm)

May 7

trojan mass-mailer worm

Hardhead (VBS.Hard.A@mm)

May 14

worm

Hello

April 23

worm

Homepage

May 9

encrypted email worm

Hooker

May 29

trojan

Hope.AC

April

word 97 macro

Hybris

January 8

internet worm

Invalid

August 31

worm

IRC Abuser

February 16

mirc

JS.Trojan.Loop

August 28

trojan

Kalamar.A (OnTheFly)

February 12

worm

Kid Arcade

June 13

scripts

Klez

October 26

infects by reading email without opening attachment

Kork

April 26

Redhat 7

Leave

June 25

email, IRC backdoor worm

Lindose

April 1

Win & Linux - no payload

Linong

July 1

worm

Lion

March 24

Linux worm

Loveletter.BE

June 7

worm

Loveletter.CL

May 18

backdoor Trojan

Loveletter.CQ (Linong)

 

worm

Mac.Simpsons

June 12

MACs

Magistr

March 5

CMOS, BIOS, Worm

Marijuana

July 11

worm

Maldal

December 19

worm

Matcher

April 18

worm, email

Mawanella (VBSWG.Z)

May 17

worm, email

Mcon

January 24

mirc & open network share worm

Melissa.W

January 19

worm, email

Metys-I

April

word 97 macro

Mip

January 29

overwrites Windows

Miss World

June 6

Outlook worm

MoSucker

November 15

backdoor

Naked Wife

March 6

trojan worm

Netbus

January 30

Win 95, 98, NT Trojan

Neworld

January 11

c:\windows,*.php,*.html,
*.htm,*.htt

New Pic

August 30

MSN Messenger

Newsflood

June 20

usenet trojan

Nightflyght

May 31

VBS worm, Outlook, MIRC

Nimda

September 18

MS IIS server

Nimda-B

October 9

MS IIS server

Nimda-C

October 11

MS IIS server

Nimda-D

October 29

MS IIS Server

Nimda-E

October 30

MS IIS Server

Noped

May 22

Win worm

Nymph

July 6

backdoor mass mailer

Offensive

August 24

trojan worm

Onex

August 6

Word Macro

Opera

March 23

a false alarm

Padania

March 7

Win 95

Palm MTX

September 13

trojan

Parrot

August 3

mIRC & MS Outlook Express

Peach

August 9

pdf

Peep

?

remote access trojan

Pink Pick

May 11

Excel macro virus

Pirus

January 11

web servers

Potok

August 3

mass mailer worm

Ptsnoop

September 18

backdoor

Ramen

January 18

Linux, internet worm

Redesi

October 19

email worm

Rizal

September 17

trojan (DOS, Win 9x, ME)

Sad Mind or Poizon Box

May 11

Sun Solaris & Win NT/2000

San

February 12

worm, deletes c:\

Santa

January 8

VBS worm

Santa Palm

January 18

no infection but adds entries for 12/25/2030

Septer

October 29

trojan disguised as Red Cross donation application

Shoho

December 27

email worm

Sircam

July 18

mass mailing worm

SSIWG

August 28

VBS worm

Staples

March 20

worm

Stator

April 20

internet worm &'The Bat' email program

Three Tunes

March 19

com & exe files

Totilix

February 21

deletes c:/, no boot

Tqll

January 3

VBS worm

Universe

January 24

worm

Updater

December 7

mass mailing worm

Utter

October 19

trojan

Valentin

February 11

worm

VBSWG.AF

October 16

IRC

VBSWG.V@mm

March 22

worm, pirch, mirc

Vierika

March 6

worm

'Vote'

September 24

worm

Voyager Alpha Force

November 21

MS SQL Server

Welyah

December 20

mass mailer worm

Whacked

June 12

IRC worm

Wyx

January 8

Master Boot Record

Zhymn

January 8

Win 9x

Zoher

December 26

email worm

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