Storm Worm (aka Peacomm, Nuwar) – This virus burst onto the scene in 2006/2007 and hit the Internet like a nuclear warhead. It was distributed via an email with the subject “230 dead as storm batters Europe.” The writers of the virus definitely made it look like a news brief that peaked a lot of interest and they altered the subject and news to be timely enough to get the user’s attention. At it’s peak more than 200 million emails had been infected with this virus which created a massive spam email botnet.