1996
January 1996: two notable events - the appearance of the first Windows95 virus ("Win95.Boza") and the epidemics of the extremely complicated polymorphic virus "Zhengxi" in St. Petersburg (Russia).March 1996: the first Windows 3.x virus epidemic. The name of the virus is "Win.Tentacle".
June 1996: "OS2.AEP" - the first virus for OS/2, correctly infecting EXE files of this operating system.
July 1996: "Laroux" - the first virus for Microsoft Excel caught live.
December 1996: "Win95.Punch" - the first "memory resident" virus for Windows95.
In general the year 1996 is the start of widespread virus intervention into the Windows32 operating system (Windows95 and WindowsNT) and into the Microfoft Office applications.
1997
February 1997: "Linux.Bliss" - the first virus for Linux (a Unix clone).February-April 1997: macro viruses migrated to Office97.
March 1997: "ShareFun" - macro-virus hitting Microsoft Word 6/7.
April 1997: "Homer" - the first network worm virus, using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for propagation.
June 1997: There appears the first self encrypting virus for Windows95.
November 1997: The "Esperanto" virus. This is the first virus that intends to infect not only DOS and Windows32 executable files, but also spreads into the Mac OS (Macintosh).
December 1997: new virus type, the so-called "mIRC Worms", came into being.
The KAMI ltd. anti-virus department has braked away from the mother company constituting the independent one what, certainly, is considered the main event of 1997. Currently the company known as Kaspersky Labs and proved to be a recognized leader of the anti-virus industry.
October 1997: the agreement on licensing of AVP technologies use in F-Secure Anti-Virus (FSAV) was signed.
1998
The year beginning: Epidemic of the "Win32.HLLP.DeTroie" virus family, not just infecting Windows32 executed files but also capable to transmit to the "owner" the information on the computer that was infected, shocked the computer world.February 1998: One more virus type infecting the Excel tables "Excel4.Paix" (aka "Formula.Paix) was detected.
February - March 1998: "Win95.HPS" and "Win95.Marburg" - the first polymorphous Windows32-viruses were detected and furthermore they were "in-the-wild".
March 1998: "AccessiV" - the first Microsoft Access virus was born.
March 1998: The "Cross" macro-virus, the first virus infecting two different MS Office applications - Access and Word, is detected.
May 1998 - The "RedTeam" virus infects Windows EXE-files and dispatches the infected files through Eudora e-mail.
June 1998 - The "Win95.CIH" virus epidemic at the beginning was mass, then became global and then turned to a kind of computer holocaust - quantity of messages on computer networks and home personal computers infection came to the value of hundreds if not thousands pierces.
August 1998: Nascence of the sensational "BackOrifice" ("Backdoor.BO") - utility of latent (hacker's) management of remote computers and networks. After "BackOrifice" some other similar programs - "NetBus", "Phase" and other - came into being.
November 1998: "VBScript.Rabbit" - The Internet expansion of computer parasites proceeded by three viruses infecting VisualBasic scripts (VBS files), which being actively used in Web pages development.
The anti-virus manufacturers world was also considerably rearranged. In May 1998 Symantec and IBM announced the union of their forces on the anti-virus market.
1999
The infamous "Melissa" virus infects thousands of computers with alarming speed, causing an estimated $80 million in damage and prompting record sales of anti-virus products. The virus starts a program that sends copies of itself to the first 50 names listed in the recipient's Outlook e-mail address book. It also infects Microsoft Word documents on the user's hard drive, and mails them out through Outlook to the same 50 recipients.2000
The "I Love You" virus infects millions of computers virtually overnight, using a method similar to the Melissa virus.See more:
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