Computer virusBy: Matthew Schweikart

Five dangerous virusesStuxnetConficker Virusagent.btzZeus PoisonIvy

Stuxnet

Was like a cartoon villain, first virus that tried to harm the actual world verses the virtual world.

Targets software that controls industrial systems.

Was made to damage machinery at Iran’s uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.

Conficker Virus

Is a wormGot into window based PC’s creating

massive botnet armies that had the capability of stealing financial data and other information.

It infected millions of computers leading to an anti-virus research called “super Bug”

The mystery of this virus is that it infects thousands of computers but nobody knows what it is suppose to do.

agent.btz

This virus forced the government to temporarily blanket ban the pentagon’s flash drives.

made the military issue a new department called U.S. Cyber Command.

The government suspected the works of foreign spiders.

The government then started experimenting of anti-viruses.

Zeus

Made a cyber crime underworld.Used to pilfer passwords.Also has made it so that identities can be sold

in the cyber underground. it help the use of buying and selling stuff

over the internet.

PoisonIvy

Allows the attacker to secretly control the infected user’s computer.

Is a trapdoor virusOnce infected the attacker can record or

multiply whatever the user has done on the computer.