Kaspersky announced the greatest impact of 15 malicious programs in the history

June 26, 1997, Eugene Kaspersky, led the other co-founder, jointly formed by Kaspersky Lab, the newly established, company has only 20 employees. In the 15 anniversary of the establishment in 2012, Kaspersky Lab has grown to the world's largest private security company, Operations in nearly 200 countries and employs more than 2,400, support IT security protection services for over 300 million users in the worldwide, Including more than 200,000 business users.

Moreover, Kaspersky Lab's team of experts also found many milestone high network threats, and carried out a detailed technical analysis. It is this team of experts found many the world's most complex malware, including Cabir, Duqu and the infamous Flame malware.

Kaspersky Lab CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky said: " engaged an industry for 15 years is a very long time, but no matter you believe it or not, I am still full of passion for this industry. I love our team and the work we are engaged. The past 15 years, we analyze and fight against all types of IT threats around the clock every day. These threats from the initial network rogue nature  evolved into cyber crime, and even cyber warfare. Today, we more urgent need joint fight against digital threats than ever. The recent attacks such as: Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame show that IT infrastructure is very vulnerable to military and terrorist threats, We make every effort to prevent the results of the potential disasters caused by these attacks."

In order to commemorate the 15^th Anniversary , Kaspersky Lab collect and collate the greatest impact 15 malicious programs in the history.

1. 1986, the first computer viruses Brain appear: The virus is spread through the write to the floppy boot area code.  

2. In 1988, the Morris worm infected 10 percent of the computer that access the Internet ( about 6000 ).

3. 1992 Michelangelo virus, the first virus that let mass media pay attention.

4. 1995 appeared the first macro virus Concept

5. 1999 the virus that spread through e-mail Melissa appear, resulting the worldwide epidemic.

6. 2003 the non-files worm Slammer, causing the world's large-scale infection.

7. 2004 the malware Cabir under Symbian platform, spread via Bluetooth.

8. 2006, Leap: The first virus for Mac OSX

9. 2007 Storm worm [as Zhelatin], First use distributed command to control the server.

10. 2008 Koobface, the first malware for Facebook

11. 2008 Conficker, cause the largest an infection outbreak in the history, infected corporate users, home users and government agencies around the world in over 200 countries

12. 2010 FakePlayer, the Andrews platform SMS Trojan

13. 2010 Stuxnet, attacks on SCADA systems, marks the era of cyber warfare coming

14. 2011 Duqu, able to collect the intelligence of the target complex Trojan

15. 2012 Flame, a highly complex malware, are used to act as a network weapons, attacks against a number of national targets