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Navidad is a mass-mailer worm that displays messages in Spanish. The worm is
capable of making the computer unusable and whether or not this is intentional
is uncertain, as the code has numerous bugs. "Navidad" means "Christmas" in
Spanish. It ended up causing very little actual damage as it alerted users of
its presence from the time it infected the system and only became destructive if
it was not removed quickly.

Visually, the worm puts on a bit of a show, first loading an error message, then
placing an icon in the system tray informing the user "we are watching". It then
presents a button it orders the user to never press. If the user does, the worm
informs the user that they have just destroyed their computer.


RECENT ADDITIONS

 * Colette, a VBS trojan that breaks Windows files
 * Rozak, a dangerous overwriting virus.
 * Ussrhymn, a virus that plays the national anthem of the Soviet Union.
 * RHINCE, a polymorphic engine by Rhincewind, used by Qark for his Goodtimes
   virus.
 * Casino, a potentially dangerous DOS virus that requires the user to play a
   game to save their file allocation table.
 * Satyr, a Linux virus.
 * Immortal Riot. a prolific virus group based in Sweden that produced the
   Insane Reality zine in the 1990s.
 * Tinit, a windows virus that can infect over network shares.
 * Yarner, a worm that disguises itself as an antivirus product.
 * Z0mbie, coder of many innovative viruses, including Zperm, and Zmist, along
   with some fascinating polymorphic and metamorphic engines.
 * Kaiowas, aka Kagob, a Linux virus.
 * Sachiel. a worm that spreads through floppy drives.
 * Postcard, a polymorphic VBS worm by Lord Yup.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

You must have a Wikidot login starting from now to edit pages. This is for two
reasons. One obviously is the issue of spam and vandalism. This is a near
constant low-level annoyance that sucks a little bit of the joy out of
maintaining this wiki. It's a nice thought that anyone should be able to
contribute, but maybe they shouldn't. Which brings us to the other reason. This
wiki covers a very specialized and complex technical subject, which can lead to
a lot of embarrassing, if well-meaning mistakes if done by the wrong hands.

Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated. True, it has been a very
long time since we last produced an entry for the wiki. Our professional and
personal lives over the past few months have made it extremely difficult to
devote to this labor of love, but most of us are still very much on it. New
entries will continue to be few and far between for the foreseeable future.
However, we will still be very much here, unless Wikidot folds and pulls the
plug on the server, which is pretty unlikely to happen.


NEWS

 * The NSA may have had a hand in the Stuxnet worm, according to recently leaked
   documents. Long thought to be the work of the CIA and Israeli Mossad, a
   recent leak by the "Shadow Brokers" hacking organization included a tool by
   the NSA that was nearly identical to one used in Stuxnet. It was last
   compiled on 2010.09.09, a few months after the discovery of Stuxnet.
   Researcher Liam O'Murchu says there is definitelty a strong connection but no
   proof that the tool confirms a link to Stuxnet and the CIA. A python script
   contained in the leak displays an ASCII medal with the text “Won the gold
   medal!!!” above it, a possible reference to the "Olympic Games" codename of
   the project creating Stuxnet.

 * After 14 years of inactivity, the Slammer worm has made a mysterious
   comeback. The worm made brief spikes in late November and early December of
   the last year. The attacks primarily came from China, Vietnam, Mexico and
   Ukraine, though the US, Russia, Thailand, Venezuela and Argentina. No one
   seems to know how or why the 14-year old worm that is very specific to a
   vulnerability that should be patched and a port that should be closed was
   able to make a comeback, but there is a lot of room for speculation.


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Monopoly is a Visual Basic worm coded by Zulu, creator of Bubbleboy and Stages.
Its most prominent feature is the image of a Monopoly-style board with the face
of Bill Gates placed over that of the Monopoly man. No reported incidents of the
worm in the wild seem to exist and the worm was not malicious, so it likely
never did any damage.

When opened, the worm first displays a message saying "Bill Gates is guilty of
monopoly. Here is the proof.". When the user clicks on "OK", the worm then
displays a window showing the image of about half of a modified Monopoly board,
with Bill Gates popping out of the second "O".




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Opaserv is a network worm with many different variants. One thing common to all
Opaserv variants is that they carry a trojan that either updates the worm by
downloading a new copy from a particular site, or it destroys the operating
system. It caused a major worldwide epidemic in the fall of 2002, sometimes
beating out other prominent worms of the time including Klez and Tanatos.

Some of its variants had a particularly interesting payload intended to scare or
confuse the user. One variant, before destroying the system, displays a message
at boot up tricking the user into thinking their copy of Windows is illegal and
they are in violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Someone
thought it would be a good idea to use this as their desktop wallpaper.



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