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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:What? no swine flu? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i know you were going for a funny, but the ARPANET Creeper virus and something to do with SCO should have set off alarms in your head that you're a cheap cunt with no life

    timothy has balls the size of a small city. if you see them, please make sure to tranquilize them. oh and he has a chode that thomasdz loves to suck

  2. this is 6o4tsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We strongly urge downward spiral. In the Latest Netcraft Ya sad world. At every chance I got fatal mistakes,