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KOMPAS.com — computer security company Kaspersky Lab, in a birthday-15, bear in mind regarding the 15 most dangerous computer viruses and complex has struck the world's computer networks.

The following 3 viruses dangerous most influential in history, as presented in a press release, Kaspersky Tuesday (17/7/2012):

-1986 PC virus, Brain, which first appeared: the virus is spread by writing code in the boot sector or a floppy disk.

-1988, worms infect about 10 per cent of Morris computer that is connected to the internet (about 6,000 computers).

-1992, Michelangelo, viruses that first attracted the attention of the media was massive.

 -1995, Concept, the first macro virus,

-1999 ushered in the era of e-mail, Melissa mass malware which resulted in a global epidemic.

-2003, Slammer, worms * file fileless without), resulting in a massive epidemic worldwide.

-2004, Cabir: Proof-of-Concept for Symbian; disseminated via Bluetooth.

-2006, Leap, the first virus Mac OSX

2007, the first viral Storm Worm [Zhelatin] pioneered the use of distributed server

-2008 C&C., Koobface, malware that made Facebook as the first target.

-2008, Conficker, one of the largest in the history of the epidemic, infecting company, home users and Governments in more than 200 countries.

-2010, FakePlayer, Trojan SMS on Android.

-2010, Stuxnet targeted assaults on the system, SCADA [Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition]; marks the advent of an era of war cyber

-2011, Duqu, sophisticated Trojan that gathers intelligence about target

-2012, Flame, highly sophisticated malicious programs are actively used as a cyber weapon to attack entities in several countries.

Kaspersky Lab was established under the leadership of Eugene Kaspersky and co-founder. Starting from only 20 employees in 1997, Kaspersky Lab evolved into the world's largest private security company, with more than 2,400 employees in approximately 200 countries around the world.

Kaspersky Lab develops content management solution & security threats, providing IT security for more than 300 million users worldwide, including more than 200,000 companies.

With the level of expertise team, Kaspersky Lab claims to have recently managed to uncover some of the most complex malware ever to exist in the world, such as Cabir, Duqu, and most notably, malware Flame.

"Fifteen years is a long time to be in the same business. But, believe it or not, I still love it. I love this team and I love my job. "

"In the last 15 years we work around the clock every day, analyzing and dealing with any kind of threat IT has evolved in that time span ranging from hooliganisme cyber, cyber criminals, to the cyber war.

"The most important thing at the moment is teaming up against digital threats. The latest such attack, Stuxnet Duqu, and Flame have shown how fragile is IT infrastructure against the threat of military and terrorist. "

"However, we are trying our best in order to prevent the potential damage that can occur as a result of an attack like this," said Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab.