Archives for 2013

Would you believe that a virus can infect your files without changing a single byte in the infected file? Well, it's true; two different ways in fact! … [Read more...]

There is a type of virus known as a "cluster" virus that infects your files not by changing the file or planting extra files but by changing the DOS … [Read more...]

Below is an expanded summary of the history of viruses from the start to when I stopped recording "new" events. Narrative histories of the early … [Read more...]

A peer-to-peer (P2P or rarely PtP) computer network uses computers connected to other computers in a network instead of going through a central hub or … [Read more...]

Let's face it, users trust search engines like Google and others. Search Poisoning takes advantage of this trust and attempts to lure users to … [Read more...]

Actually, the summary above about says it all. Floppy disks (back in the old days), CDs (more recently), and downloads of commercial software or … [Read more...]

Back Orifice is a Trojan that provides a backdoor into your computer when active and you are connected to the Internet. The original program came out … [Read more...]

Kakworm (KAK) is a worm. It takes advantage of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and Outlook Express mail program. A … [Read more...]

Sneaking up on the world in July 1996 while everyone was so worried about Word macro viruses, Laroux became the first Microsoft Excel macro virus and … [Read more...]