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Anna Kournikova worm
No, there's no Kournikova porn there
- Developer: Unknown
- Release Date: 2001
- Twitter: Unknown
- Known For:
Summary
The Anna Kournikova worm (also known as VBS/Onthefly) pruports to have some pornography of Anna Kournikova, a Russian tennis star. Instead it e-mails itself to everyone in your Microsoft Outlook address book. It was released in 2001.
The file was AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs - meant to fool people into thinking it was a JPG file.
Origins
It was programmed in VBScript by Jan de Wit, a Dutch VXer who has the internet name "Onthefly". David L. Smith, the guy who wrote Melissa, helped track down Wit.
Current status
Not common anymore.
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Videos
The Mystery of the Kournikova Virus (Spanish)
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