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Until a few years ago, viruses and other malicious programs tended to be isolated acts of computer vandalism, anti-social self-expression using hi-tech means. Most viruses confined themselves to infecting other disks or programs and ‘damage’ was largely defined in terms of loss of data as a virus erased or (less often) corrupted data stored on affected disks.
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Emm, D. (2009). The Kido Botnet: Back to the Future. In: Jahankhani, H., Hessami, A.G., Hsu, F. (eds) Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. ICGS3 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04062-7_21
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