FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -In late March 1999, a programmer named David Lee Smith hijacked an America Online (AOL) account and used it to post a file on an Internet newsgroup named “alt. sex.” The posting promised dozens of free passwords to fee-based websites with adult content.

Detailed explanation-2: -He said that he constructed the virus to evade anti-virus software and to infect computers using the Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating systems and the Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 word processing programs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brain, the first PC virus, began infecting 5.2” floppy disks in 1986. As Securelist reports, it was the work of two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who ran a computer store in Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Melissa was a type of email virus that initially became an issue in early 1999. It was a mass-mailing macro virus that targeted Microsoft Word-and Outlook-based systems.

Detailed explanation-5: -A man named David L. Smith decided to capitalize on the confusion surrounding the internet and email when he created the first successful email-aware computer virus. The malware-the Melissa virus-was one of the first to get public attention because it caused more than $80 million in damage.