From The Dark Side Comes The BubbleBoy Virus

1999–2004November 10, 1999Dana BaggettDark Side
Named after a Seinfeld episode character, this replicating worm works off Microsoft applications Internet Explorer 5.0, Oulook and Outlook Express running on Windows 98 and 2000 according to this ZDNet article. It is a proof of concept that could yield other similar but far more dangerous scum. [Dana Baggett]

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