Know-Legal Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Conficker - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker

   Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. [2] It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) [3] [4] and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use ...

3. Scareware - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scareware

   Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes rogue security software, ransomware and other scam software that tricks users into believing their computer is infected with a virus, then suggests that they download and pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. [2]

4. SpySheriff - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpySheriff

   SpySheriff [a] (also known as BraveSentry 2.0 among other names) is malware that disguises itself as anti-spyware software. It attempts to mislead the user with false security alerts, threatening them into buying the program. [4] Like other rogue antiviruses, after producing a list of false threats, it prompts the user to pay to remove them.

5. MEMZ - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMZ

   MEMZ was originally created by Leurak for YouTuber danooct1's Viewer-Made Malware series. [4] It was later featured by Joel Johansson, alias Vargskelethor, a member of the live-streaming group Vinesauce on his series Windows Destruction, who demonstrated the trojan in action against a Windows 10 virtual machine [6] after being provided with a copy by danooct1.

6. Andromeda (trojan) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(trojan)

   Andromeda (trojan) Andromeda is a modular trojan which was first spotted in 2011. The behavior of this malware is its capability of checking whether it is being executed or debugged in a virtual environment by using anti-virtual machine techniques. [ 1] It downloads other malware from its control servers, often in order to steal information ...

7. AIDS (Trojan horse) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)

   Authors. Dr. Joseph Popp. AIDS, also known as Aids Info Disk or PC Cyborg Trojan, is a DOS Trojan horse whose payload mungs and encrypts the names of all directories on drive C:. It was developed by Dr. Joseph Popp (1950-2006), an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from Harvard. The virus was isolated in 1989.