The Threats Have Been Drawn!! 56K Warning(Real Threat)

[Metroid]

MessageLabs knows the enemy. We work around the clock to identify and stop millions of email, web and IM based threats every day before they can reach our customers. Whether its viruses, phishing attacks, malicious web links, spam, trojans, or spyware, we have a hard-earned reputation of stopping known and unknown threats long before the competition. We do this by drawing on the scale of our software as a service (SaaS) delivery model and the intelligence drawn from the billions of messages and web pages we process through our network every day. This intelligence is fed in ‘real time’ to our patented Skeptic technology to form the most comprehensive and up to date knowledge base of Internet threats in the world.

For the first time ever, we have developed images that show what the threats look like graphically based on the actual code. The images have been produced by the award winning artist, Alex Dragulescu, using the actual code provided by MessageLabs from each of the threats featured. The images have been divided into six main threat categories as follows:
Viruses

>A COMPUTER VIRUS IS A FORM OF MALWARE. SOME VIRUS CODES ATTACH THEMSELVES TO A PROGRAM IN THE HOST COMPUTER. VIRUSES THAT CAN RUN INDEPENDENTLY ARE KNOWN AS WORMS. A VIRUS IS EITHER DESIGNED TO COMPROMISE ITS HOST OR TO SELF-REPLICATE TO INFECT OTHER COMPUTER


http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/images/content/en-US/threats/threat_virus1.jpghttp://www.messagelabs.co.uk/images/content/en-US/threats/threat_virus2.jpghttp://www.messagelabs.co.uk/images/content/en-US/threats/threat_virus3.jpg

Netsky Virut Parite / Netsky


Source (http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/threats?c=WW729BpQp4GLx7X2QWb46g%3d%3d)


Now It is time to you all know who are the virus that attack your Personal Computer. The threats are well drawn and you could give us your preciously opinion about which one is the most horrible of them all.

Have Fun :)

Metroid.

[cegras]

If he generated those images from code using some sort of algorithm instead of using his 'artists intuition', that's pretty neat - it's showing off the complexity of the code graphically, and I suppose all the loops and repetitiveness add to the patterns in the image.

[mr_knowitall15]

pretty cool. As a person who gets to bust viruses at work all kinds, i vote for trojan-zlob and virtumonde to be the nastiest ones.

[ferrari_freak]

If he generated those images from code using some sort of algorithm instead of using his 'artists intuition', that's pretty neat - it's showing off the complexity of the code graphically, and I suppose all the loops and repetitiveness add to the patterns in the image.

You know that would be pretty cool. Think about this, if the code of your favourite game were to be made into a sculpture or model or something, what would it look like? On the other hand though, I really don't see the point to this company.

[Angry Beaver]

people love being able to quantify things and in this digital dy and age things are getting more and more obscure. being able to put a real face on something like this psychologically allows a person to deal with it, face it, and remember it more readily than an abstract concept. The company really is just trying to pander to your deeper psychology to get you more worried about security and thus mroe likley to be using them. The upside about doing it this way for them is many of would look past that and go "thats neat" and as such spread information about their company around, so they are ironically virally promoting their anti virus services.

[masterg]

i would have to guess rootkits >.>

i last pc got hit with something, that now all the windows support programs i guess you could call them, are gone. msconfig, dxdiag of that sort. also took out IE, outlook, and safemode

...try drawing that >.>