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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. At last! by msobkow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At last, an article from a major outlet that doesn't break up into ten seperate pages, one for each item, all in hopes of getting more page/ad views. :)

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    1. Re:At last! by Evil+Shabazz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, I love when a Top Ten article lists numbers 10 through 3, with 2 honorable mentions. That's always my favorite top ten format.

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  2. Re:Thing of the past? by phantomcircuit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are aware that the Conficker worm spread over infected flash drives with autorun enabled right?

  3. Re:the manual virus by mabinogi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The single biggest rule I use is. "Which language am I speaking?".

    If the answer is English, then who cares from which language the word originated, and how that language may or may not have pluralised it?
    In English, we append '-s' or '-es', so if in doubt, do that.
    Doing so may not be correct all the time, but at least when it's wrong it looks like a simple mistake, rather than pretentious hyper-correction.

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