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Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus

Posted by timothy on from the shouldn't-this-be-a-list-of-13? dept.

Slatterz writes "All this panic over a strain of flu got these people thinking about some of the more virulent computer pandemics that have hit in recent years. While a computer virus pales in seriousness to a human outbreak, malware attacks can still take a huge toll on businesses throughout the world. This list of the top ten worst viruses includes some interesting trivia, including ARPANET's Creeper virus in 1971, how early attempts at copy protection resulted in Brain, and MyDoom's denial of service attack on SCO."

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  1. Re:Incomplete article? by Evets · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're waiting for slashdot readers to enumerate the last two. They'll read all the "They forgot xxx virus" comments and by tomorrow, they'll wrap up #2 and #1.

  2. STDs by Timberfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girlfriend told me i got herpies from using her laptop

  3. The Real Worry by mrsquid0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real worry is that a computer virus will make the leap into the human population.

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    Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
    1. Re:The Real Worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I believe this has already happened.

      A large number people were exposed for far too long to a popular operating system (name undisclosed) and this has infected their brain resulting in a massive dumbing down of the users... A few antivirus are available but the problem is that while the virus is in control, the subjects will refuse to take any cure.

    2. Re:The Real Worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah yes. Parent is referring to the viral nature of the GPL. If I learned anything in school, it's that using Linux is like having unprotected sex with Richard Stallman.

      -BSD fanboi

      [Mods, relax. It's a joke. I know the parent would want me to say it's about Windows and Bill Gates, which makes me wonder about those poor chaps who go both ways and dual boot. I bet they take it in the boot... Oh bugger I did it again, sorry!]

  4. Re:Incomplete article? by l00sr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Top ten incomplete top ten lists:

    10) That virus one

    9) This one

  5. Re:Thing of the past? by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, actually, I wasn't. That might explain all this trouble I've been having. No... wait... that's just windows.

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  6. Re:At last! by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because he couldn't finish the article: the author just got the other two, coolwebsearch and xrenoder, and between the pop-ups and the pr0n links, he's fux0red. His home page now says "In Soviet Russia, computer surfs YOU!"