Viruses

Creeper

Oct 21, 1971

The first Worm program

'The Internet Worm'

Oct 21, 1985

Written by a person at Cornell University, it brought the internet the standstill

Stoned

Oct 21, 1989

most widespread virus of the virst decade of viruses, would count the number of reboots from its infection and display the phrase "you are stoned"

MICHEANGELO

Oct 21, 1992

A variant of stoned, but destroyed the first 100 sectors of harddrive

CHERNOBYL

Oct 21, 1998

The most destructive virus ever, it would erase the harddrive and wipe out the ROM

MELISSA

Oct 21, 1999

First major virus to spread through Email

Code RED

Oct 21, 2001

A network virus that spread without the use of email or a browser

The Klez virus

Oct 22, 2001

A worm that entered through email and some variants had prosesses to render the computer inoperable

CommWarrior & The skulls virus

Oct 22, 2001

attacked Symbian OS smart phones and displayed screens of skulls instead of a home page on the victims' phones.

SQL Slammer

Oct 22, 2003

Many computer networks were unprepared for the attack, and as a result the virus brought outages to seattles 911 service

ROOTKITS

Oct 21, 2005

They have become the most popular stealth tools of malicious code.

Netsky

Oct 22, 2005

The Netsky virus moves through e-mails, distributing a file, and triggering DDoS attacks

Storm Worm

Oct 22, 2006

A email trojan spread with the subject "230 dead as storm batters euroup

Heartblead bug

Apr 22, 2014

A major security bug in OpenSSL cryptography, allowed many computers to get infected by other viruses. This resulted in many people needing to change thier password