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Which of the following applications work as mass-emailing worms? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

The correct answer is A. Nimda virus B. I LOVE YOU virus. Nimda and ILOVEYOU are canonical mass-emailing worms that propagated by automatically sending copies of themselves to contacts via email.

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Question

Which of the following applications work as mass-emailing worms? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

Options

  • ANimda virus
  • BI LOVE YOU virus
  • CMelissa virus
  • DChernobyl virus

How the community answered

(42 responses)
  • A
    93% (39)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    5% (2)

Why each option

Nimda and ILOVEYOU are canonical mass-emailing worms that propagated by automatically sending copies of themselves to contacts via email.

ANimda virusCorrect

Nimda is a multi-vector worm that uses email as a primary propagation method, automatically sending infected attachments to addresses harvested from the compromised host, qualifying it as a mass-emailing worm alongside its other spread vectors such as network shares and web clients.

BI LOVE YOU virusCorrect

The ILOVEYOU worm spread in 2000 by emailing itself to every contact in a victim's Microsoft Outlook address book using an enticing subject line, making it one of the fastest-spreading and most destructive mass-emailing worms ever recorded.

CMelissa virus

The Melissa virus is primarily a Microsoft Word macro virus that attaches itself to documents and uses email to deliver those documents - it is most accurately classified as a macro virus rather than a standalone mass-emailing worm by design and propagation mechanism.

DChernobyl virus

The Chernobyl virus (CIH) is a file-infecting virus that overwrites hard drive sectors and BIOS flash memory on its trigger date - it spreads through infected executable files and has no email-based mass-mailing capability.

Concept tested: Identifying mass-emailing worm malware examples

Source: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2001/09/18/nimda-worm

Topics

#mass-emailing worms#Nimda#I LOVE YOU virus#malware classification

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