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8 Deadly Computer Viruses That Shook The World

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Sasser and Netsky were created by Sven Jaschan in 2004. These two worms infected Delta Air Lines and the news agency Agence France-Presse by swamping their computer systems. In the end Sven was sold out by his friend, it helps that Microsoft put out a bounty of $250,000 for information. The even bigger issue is the fact that both of these spawned almost thirty variants, making it very hard to track and delete from the system it had infected.