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Wiki provides a tool/platform where everyone can contributes to a specific topic. The most famous wiki is [|wikipedia]at [|www.wikipedia.org]. In this project, you're required to contribute to a group wiki, topic is "Computer Viruses", so you need to browse through the web, learn one virus and write something about it and post your understanding of the virus inside this wiki.
 * You must select a virus that has not been previously posted to your wiki group, so read the wiki before posting. Please always insert your post at the end of this wiki page, please do NOT insert it in front of an existing wiki post.
 * For your contribution, write a paragraph (6-8 sentences) about the virus you found. Include at least one link to the source of your information, and a link to a "fix" for the virus.
 * Please be EXTRA careful as NOT to delete other people's posts while editing yours. When you try to save your post, if you see a warning message telling you that you're going to override other people's post, do not save your post first, wait for a few minutes, then save it, basically wikispaces.com does not support concurrent saving!
 * All the changes you make to your group Wiki are visible through the history of the wiki. If you overwrite other students posts, you will be penalized with 20% deduction on your grade.
 * Feel free to add any type of widgets (tables, videos, etc) inside your post.
 * **Important:** Once you finish the posting, double check the wiki page to make sure that your post can be seen, also keep a soft copy of your work for future reference.
 * **Be careful, do NOT** add your post under "Discussion" by clicking on "Add Discussion", since you will not be able to delete it once added!
 * **For grading purpose, write your name after your post so that we know whose post it belongs to and insert a horizontal line at the end of your post to separate yours from others.**

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MyDoom Virus (Sample only - Do not modify/delete it)
One of the most costly viruses to date is known as the “MyDoom” virus. The virus was released in 2004 from Russia. The spread of the virus was so chaotic that “Within 24 hours of the release of the virus, it had infected one out of every 12 emails world wide” [|(The Telegraph Report)]. The damaging cost of the virus was “$38.5 billion USD in economic damages” [|[1 ]]], the most expensive to date. The virus is spread through e-mails similarly to the “Iloveyou” virus. MyDoom attempts to spread via email by copying itself to any available shared directories, messages, and other file formats. It is able to disguise itself resulting in many computer users overlooking the virus, and making it very difficult to find [|[2 ]]]. Solution to clean up this virus can be found from [|Computer World]

- **Posted as a demontration**