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Brain Virus
The Brain virus is a memory resident stealth boot sector infector that changes the infected disk's volume label to "(c) brain" or "(c) ashar" depending on variant.

Bagle.V worm
Bagle.V is a mass-mailing email worm.

Bagle.U worm
The Bagle.U worm is a mass-mailing email worm that opens TCP port 4751 on infected systems and sends HTTP notice to the worm's author.

Dumaru.Z worm
The Dumaru.Z worm is a mass-mailing email worm with a keylogging component.

Lovgate.G worm
The Lovgate.G worm is a mass-mailing email worm with remote access capabilities

Bagle worm
The Bagle worm is a mass-mailing email worm with remote access capabilities

Parite virus
The Parite virus is a memory-resident polymorphic file infector that infects EXE and SCR files found on local and shared network drives.

Bymer
The Bymer worm is a PE executable (Win32 application) that infects Win9x machines with open file shares.

Burglar
Burglar infects executables on the sytem when they are accessed either directly, or via DOS commands such as DIR and ATTRIB.

Bubbleboy
The Bubbleboy virus has the distinction of being the first true email virus that infected without the use of an attachment.

Boot.437
Boot.437 a.k.a. boot virus is a memory-resident DOS boot sector infector

BleBla
BleBla is an email worm that mass-mails itself to addresses listed in the infected users address book and also to the alt.comp.virus newsgroup.

Gibe.F a.k.a. Swen
Swen is also commonly known as Gibe.F and is best known for masquerading as a Microsoft security update. In fact, Swen a.k.a. Gibe.F also masquerades as a bounced/failed message. Swen/Gibe.F also spoofs the From address.

Jerusalem virus
One of the oldest PC viruses, the Jerusalem virus contained a Friday the 13th payload, deleting programs run on that date.

Back Orifice
Back Orifice is considered by many to be a Trojan. The Cult of the Dead Cow considers Back Orifice to be a remote access utility.

AutoStart Worm
The AutoStart worm infects Macintosh systems by taking advantage of the CD-ROM AutoStart feature.

AntiEXE virus
AntiEXE is a stealth boot sector virus. The AntiEXE virus infects DOS boot sectors.

AntiCMOS
AntiCMOS is a memory resident boot sector virus. The AntiCMOS virus infects DOS boot sectors.

Anti virus
The Mac Anti virus is thought to have orginated in France. Anti virus infects System 6 Macintoshes running Finder.

Blaster worm
The Blaster worm and variants, a.k.a. Lovsan, MSBlast, Poza, Welchi, and Nachi, exploit a critical RPC/DCOM flaw in Microsoft software affecting Microsoft IIS, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows XP.