Evolution of viruses and worms

On the eve of Conficker's new payload activation period, I found this article from 2004, detailing four main "waves" in the evolution of viruses and worms:

http://vx.netlux.org/lib/atc01.html

From the book "Statistical Methods in Computer Security" (ISBN:0824759397, Google search)

A bit out-of-date now, since it's pre-Storm and pre-Conficker, but interesting historically.

Here's a little sumpn-sumpn on Conficker. This thing is badass:

• Conficker (Wikipedia)
• SRI's analysis: http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/

-- IanHolmes - 01 Apr 2009