List the virus that hit in the market in last 10 years, giving the details of the year and effect on
the computer system.
Answers
Explanation:
January: The Waledac botnet sent spam emails. In February 2010, an international group of security researchers and Microsoft took Waledac down.[56]
January: The Psyb0t worm is discovered. It is thought to be unique in that it can infect routers and high-speed modems.[57]
February 18: Microsoft announced that a BSoD problem on some Windows machines which was triggered by a batch of Patch Tuesday updates was caused by the Alureon Trojan.[58]
June 17: Stuxnet, a Windows Trojan, was detected.[59] It is the first worm to attack SCADA systems.[60] There are suggestions that it was designed to target Iranian nuclear facilities.[61] It uses a valid certificate from Realtek.[62]
September 9: The virus, called "here you have" or "VBMania", is a simple Trojan horse that arrives in the inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line "here you have". The body reads "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here" or "This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here".
2011