The following is a list of the top reported viruses, trojans and worms to SARC's regional offices during the last month. W97M.Marker Europe Happy99.Worm PrettyPark. Here we are in 2000, having avoided serious virus outbreaks or email spamming worms. I hope you all read our short review of the Y2k period soon after January 1st. I'd be interested to know if anyone did detect any of the 'Y2k' viruses, worms and trojans we listed leading up to the new year.
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We'll see more of these as Windows 98 and Windows 2000 become the more common of Microsofts operating systems. Last month we carried an article describing the SARC Threat Severity Assessment . This generated a lot of interest and some great suggestions which has led us to review the system and put it on hold for a month or so while we rework it. Once an infected file is executed, the virus will load into memory and will infect files that are accessed. The virus code will be inserted into the .reloc section of the 32-bit executable.