Anna Kournikova
                                                               (Computer Virus)
                                 A full one Decade  back since February 11,2001,a computer virus called Anna Kournikova proliferated across the globe pledging to provide images of the queen of tennis and at the time it was compared to the Love bug virus from the year before, and appeared to be spreading twice fast. In the first five hours after blocking the initial copies from the outbreak, more than 2,900 copies had been caught from 290 different domains .

                                                                    Jan De Wit

                                  Authored by Dutch programmer Jan de wit and it was designed to trick email users into opening a mail message purportedly containing a picture of tennis player Anna Kournikova, while actually hiding malicious program. If set off, the program plunders the address book of the Microsoft outlook e-mail program and attempts to send itself to all the  people listed here. De Wit was tried in Leeuwarden and was charged with spreading data into a computer network with the intention of causing damage, a crime that carried a maximum sentence of four years in prison and a fine of 100,000 guilders (US$41,300).

                               Anna Kournikova virus was distributed through electronic mail displaying the caption, "Here you have, o" as well as providing an attachment called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs. The suffix in the file name describing the file type indicated that rather than having an image file the attachment had a Visual Basic script.

                              While the virus wasn't refined, yet it was capable of proliferating extensively. Moreover, having itself installed it dispatched the same type of e-mails to all the addresses on the user's contact list. Security Company Sophos, which found the creator of the virus as VBS/SST-A, said the worm did no other destruction; nevertheless, it overwhelmed mail servers with messages.

                            Stated Senior Analyst Paul Wood at Symantec that the virus wasn't merely remarkably inexhaustible, but it as well represented the early indication that a vital change had occurred in the cyber-crime history. He continued that rather than one 'script kiddie' creating and releasing it, the virus was a first worm from several prominent ones that VBSWG a toolkit for writing viruses developed. The VBSWG kit was a first scripting kit that was set in Visual Basic, Wood detailed. V3.co.uk published this on February 11, 2012.
                          Apparently, the author created the virus in a matter of hours. "The young man had downloaded a program on Sunday, February 11, from the Internet and later the same day, around 3:00 p.m., set the virus loose in a newsgroup.De Wit turned himself in to authorities in the town of Sneek located in the northern province of Friesland in the Nethelands. "By the time he understood what the virus did, he had conferred with his parents and decided to turn himself in to the police.”