POPULAR  VIRUSES:

 There are a number of popular viruses

1 ILOVEYOU 

 The ILOVEYOU virus is considered one of the most dangerous computer virus ever created. The virus was created by two Filipino programmers, Reonel Ramones and Onel de Guzman. It made use of social engineering to get users to click on the attachment; the attachment was basically a txt file This led to the execution of the E-Commerce Law. 

2 Code Red 

Code Red was discovered in 2001 by two eEye Digital Security employee, it set it goal on computers with Microsoft IIS web server. 

3 Sasser 

It is basically a windows virus created by Sven Jaschan, who also created the Netsky worm; it took advantage of buffer overflow weakness in local Security authority service 

4 Zeus

 It is a Trojan horse made to affect Windows computer to perform various criminal tasks, common task in this is the main in the middle browser key logging and form grabbing