By 2003, many worms were spreading over email, however Fizzer was an altogether new animal. On the off chance that previous worms, similar to Code Red (see beneath), were about underhandedness, Fizzer was about cash. While some at first excused the earnestness of the worm since it wasn't so quick as Code Red, Fizzer was more deceptive.
"What compels Fizzer stand apart is that it's the principal occurrence of a worm made for monetary benefit," says Roel Schouwenberg, a senior scientist at Kaspersky, an enemy of infection organization. "PCs tainted with Fizzer began conveying drug store spam." as such, Fizzer didn't simply assume control over your location book to spread for spreading, it utilized your location book to convey the now natural pornography and pills spam. Fizzer was trailed by better-known spam-inciting worms, as SoBig, which became undermining enough that Microsoft even offered a $250,000 abundance for data prompting the capture of its maker.