1 . The world's first virus was introduced on November 10 in 1983 by Fred Cohen at a seminar on computer security.
2 . According to statistics, every year every third computer is subjected to virus attacks at least once a year.
- According to research by a specialist it was found out that antiviruses become obsolete in 1-2 days. Due to this, 15% of viruses penetrate into the computer quietly, regardless of anti-virus protection.
4 . Every year, computer viruses inflict financial damage to the world economy in the amount of $ 1.5 trillion.
5 . The most destructive virus in history had a romantic name "I Love You" , also known as LoveLetter.
6 . But the most secure virus is a virus called "Blaster" also known as Lovsan, Lovesan or MSBlast. The worm epidemic was observed in August 2003. The story began with the fact that the Xfocus team found a vulnerability in Windows operating systems related to buffer overflow. Due to this vulnerability, virus programs appeared, the most famous of which was the Blaster worm. The worm that got into the computer started to generate random IP addresses and after that was looking for vulnerabilities in the victim system, and having found it infected the electronics and so the cycle was repeated many times.
Viruses and ransomware are really disruptive to the use of computer technology. Although we can wish that they will not exist, we cannot avoid taking adequate steps to protect ourselves from viruses. Good post!