What are the factors in worst virus attacks?
There are many things 5 world's worst virus attacks.
1✍️Love letter:-
Love letter is the virus everyone learned to hate in 2000. The infection affected millions of computer and caused more damage than any other computer virus to date.
The mail included are executable file attachment with the e-mail subject line,"ILOVEYOU."
The worm had the ability to overwrite several types of files including,gif and jpg files.
2✍️Klez:-
The Klez worm which blends different virus traits,was first detected in October 2001.Klez distribute itself like a virus but sometimes acts like a worm,other times like a Trojan horse.
Klez sometimes masquerades as a worm removal tool! It may corrupt files and disable antivirus products.
3✍️Melissa:-
The Melissa virus swamped corporate network with a tidal wave of e-mail message in March 1999.
The Melissa virus was the first virus capable of hopping from one machine to another on its own.
4✍️Nimda
Nimda appeared in September 2001, attacking tens of thousands of servers and hunderds of thousands of PCs. The worm spread as an embedded attachment in an HTML e-mail message that would execute as soon as the recipient opened the message
Nimda soon inspired a crowd of imitators that followed the same pattern.
5✍️Anna Kournikova Worm:-
The Anna Kournikova Worm are appearing in February 2001 didn't data loss although in the process of boosting the profile of its namesake the Russian tennis player.
Kournikova also brought about a number of copycat variants.
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