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Posted by roberto on July 1, 2005, 12:13 pm
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Well....maybe we can make our own list.... to Mydoom (by the way i want to
know if was the first case on history that a virus "shutted down" a site??)
, Sobig, Blaster.... i will add Sasser, Loveletter...maybe Nimda ...but what
about the others?? Any idea or comment??
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> | Robert,
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> | As Robert Moir said, it's honestly difficult to get statistics about
> | this kind of thing. Some of the best numbers came from MessageLabs,
> | which used to post statistics about the worms they detected with their
> | email service. However, they track only emails, which does not
> | necessarily correlate to damage or PCs infected.
> |
> | However, certainly, MyDoom, Sobig.F, and Blaster all rank fairly high on
> | this list. Although Loveletter was more of a media event, being a 2000
> | worm means that it cost less and spread less overall than most worms in
> | history. I recall statistics that said that something like 30% of
> | computers in some Scandanavian countries were infected, but this could
> | very well have been based on faulty data. I'm not sure how they arrived
> | at these numbers, in any case.
> |
> | A Google search of news articles might help, but the most accurate
> | information you'll find is probably estimation on economic damage, and
> | even that will range wildly and is simply too difficult to calculate to
> | be realistic.
> |
> | Hope that helps to answer your question. :)
> |
> | Sincerely,
> |
> | Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson
> | Microsoft MVP, Windows Security
> | Security Manifest: http://www.msmvps.com/trafton/
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> I agree with your assesment and I think the Lovsan/Blaster is at the top
of the list.
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> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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