COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS
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Satanbug
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Morris worm
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Melissa worm
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Code Red
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Morris worm was released in 1988 and is widely considered the first computer worm.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Morris Worm was a self-replicating computer program (worm) written by Robert Tappan Morris, a student at Cornell University, and released from MIT on November 2, 1988.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Morris worm functioned as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. The Morris worm spread by exploiting vulnerabilities in UNIX sendmail (using a backdoor), finger (through buffer overflow), and rsh/rexec (to explore whether it could operate).
Detailed explanation-5: -He only meant for his worm to expose how quickly an attack could unfold, but he made a devastating coding mistake. The Morris worm was made to: Query. The worm asked each computer it encountered if it already had a copy of the code.