Although the title sounds like a joke, it is not and is that Guo Dong O, is the person who presents himself as a contemporary Internet artist and the has put on sale the laptop infected with 6 of the most dangerous viruses.
Guo Dong O's offer it is given for more than a million dollars. Computer laptop hosting malware It is a 10.2 inch Samsung NC10-14GB (2008) model It runs on the Microsoft Windows XP SP3 operating system.
Guo Dong O called his artwork, the laptop infected by the six computer viruses, under the name "The Persistence Of Chaos".
According to the additional explanations provided about these various malicious programs, they alone would have caused damages totaling $ 95 billion worldwide.
A live video of the computer can be viewed in an isolated room in order to prevent the spread of any of the viruses. It is perfectly safe as long as you don't connect to your Wi-Fi network or plug in a USB device.
In collaboration with New York City-based cybersecurity company Deep Instinct, Chinese artist Guo Dong O has put his artwork up for sale.
The list of malware includes the laptop are:
ILOVEYOU
This is a computer worm that it was widely circulated by email in the early 2000s.
This worm also had the names "Loveletter" and "The Love Bug." He was hiding a malicious VBS script behind a fake love letter.
This script allowed the spread of this worm through a mass spread through Outlook. Added registry keys that allow it to start every time Windows starts.
It was inserted into * .JPG, * .JPEG, * .VBS, * .VBE, * .JS, * .JSE, * .CSS, * .WSH, * .SCT, * .DOC * .HTA files and renamed to them adding .VBS at the end to allow it to run.
MyDoom
MyDoom it is a virus that spreads through emails or P2P services from Kazaa. The first infections occurred in January 2004.
The virus is also called: Mimail.R or Shimgapi and affects only Windows. Once the computer is infected, it is automatically sent to the entire address book with false identities, with random objects and installs a backdoor in the system folder.
This worm not only scan the address book but also scan the hard drive looking for email addresses.
Sobig
Sobig is a worm that infected millions of computers in August 2003. He then used a flaw in all Windows operating systems after Microsoft's Windows 95.
Sobig it was a worm and a Trojan that circulated in the form of viral spam via email. This malware could copy files, send emails to others, and damage software / hardware. This malware caused $ 37 billion in damage and hundreds of thousands of PCs.
Sobig was programmed using Microsoft Visual C ++ software, compiled and then compressed by the tElock program.
WannaCry
WannaCry, also known as WannaCrypt, WanaCrypt0r 2.0 or similar, is a self-replicating ransomware malware and perhaps one of the most famous.
In May of 2017, It was used in a massive global cyber attack that affected more than 300,000 computers in more than 150 countries, mainly in India, the United States and Russia, using the outdated Windows XP system and in general, versions prior to Windows 10 that did not make the security updates, especially on March 14, 2017, according to the security bulletin MS17-010.
This cyber attack is considered one of the worst cases of infection (in terms of damage) in the history of the Internet and Europol described it as an "unprecedented level of attack" by adding "what is wrong".
This malware uses the EternalBlue security flaw exploited by the NSA and stolen by the Shadow Brokers, a group of hackers.
GiveTequilla
This is a sophisticated and elusive virus intended primarily for users in Latin America. DarkTequila is used to steal bank IDs and corporate data, even when offline. DarkTequila has cost millions of dollars in damages to many users.
BlackEnergy
BlackEnergy was first introduced in 2007 as an HTTP toolkit that generates robots to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
In 2010, BlackEnergy 2 appeared with features that went beyond DDoS. In 2014, BlackEnergy 3 came equipped with a variety of add-ons.
Finally we could say that if your laptop is infected by a virus that is talked about a lot, perhaps you could think twice before eliminating said virus and starting your collection.