It reads like something out of a sci-fi novel - RFID chips with the potential to disrupt supply chains and shutdown airport operations. Unfortunately, this particular tale may be more science than fiction.

Babylonia is a memory resident Windows-based virus with worm and automatic update capabilities. The virus infects PE EXE (Windows Portable Executables) and HLP (Windows Help files). It also patches Windows socket library WSOCK32.DLL to send its copies to Internet and drops additional component that is able to download and install 'virus plugins' from Internet.

Cybernet is based on W97M/Pri.Q. The worm part of the virus is quite close to Melissa, as it is a macro virus which uses Outlook to spread to the first 50 addresses in the local address book. However, Cybernet infects Excel's XLS files as well as Word's DOC files.

VBS/LoveLetter is a VBScript worm. It spreads through e-mail as a chain letter.

W97M/Melissa was initially distributed in an internet discussion group called alt.sex. The virus was sent in a file called LIST.DOC, which contained passwords for X-rated websites. When users downloaded the file and opened it in Microsoft Word, a macro inside the document executed and e-mailed the LIST.DOC file to 50 people listed in the user's e-mail alias file.

I-Worm.MTX is a combination virus (worm, Trojan, and virus). It is generally received as one of the following attachments to an email.

Spread via email as an attched file named PrettyPark.exe. The file will have the icon of a South Park cartoon character. If executed, the worm first installs itself to the Windows\System directory as FILES32.VXD and then sends a copy of itself to all addresses listed in the Outlook/Outlook Express address book.

This is network worm with backdoor capabilities, which spreads itself under Win32 systems. The worm was reported in-the-wild in July-August, 2000. The worm itself is Win32 executable file and about 120K long, written in MS Visual C++.

Resume is a Melissa-like worm that sends itself with Outlook application.

W97M/Suppl is a worm the was posted to several newsgroups at September 17th, 1999. It spreads itself as an e-mail worm, with an attachment file called Suppl.doc.