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2. Computer worm - Wikipedia

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   A helpful worm or anti-worm is a worm designed to do something that its author feels is helpful, though not necessarily with the permission of the executing computer's owner. Beginning with the first research into worms at Xerox PARC , there have been attempts to create useful worms.

3. Yamanner - Wikipedia

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   The Yamanner worm is a computer worm written in JavaScript that targeted a vulnerability in the Yahoo! Mail service. Released on June 12, 2006, the worm spread through the Yahoo! system, infecting the systems of those who opened the e-mails and sending the user's address book to a remote server. [1] [2] [3] The worm exploited a vulnerability in ...

4. List of computer worms - Wikipedia

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   Trojan worm February 14, 2006 Most known for being the first virus targeting Mac computers. Morris: November 2, 1988 Robert Tappan Morris: Widely considered to be the first computer worm. Although created for academic purposes, the negligence of the author unintentionally caused the worm to act as a denial of service attack.

5. Koobface - Wikipedia

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   Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.

6. Computer worm spreading like wildfire- are you protected? - AOL

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7. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   November 10: Agobot is a computer worm that can spread itself by exploiting vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows. Some of the vulnerabilities are MS03-026 and MS05-039. [37] November 20: Bolgimo is a computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability at Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface (CVE-2003-0352). [38]