After doing some research on the more notorious virus, worm, or spyware attacks in the last few years, choose one and post a brief one paragraph summary discussing: (a) the name of the malware and category (virus,worm, etc.) (b) target operating system (c
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After doing some research on the more notorious virus, worm, or spyware attacks in the last few years, choose one and post a brief one paragraph summary discussing: (a) the name of the malware and category (virus,worm, etc.) (b) target operating system (c) the malware's tactic for infecting a victim PC (d) effect on an infected system (e) how many computers were infected over what time period (f) malware author, if known, and whether s/he was ever apprehended and successfully prosecuted
