Hacker Problems

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They could, but its not common anymore. All viruses are very common and spread fast when they are first released. Then after a month or two people update their AV to block them. SubSeven is very old, 1999. Now only ScriptKiddies download it because they think they can hack. All it does is open a backdoor on someones computer and you can take control of it. Thats why people download it. When it was first released it would send itself as an attachment like most viruses, but it wouldn't use the victims computer to send more emails, it would just open a backdoor and be done with it.

If you want info about SubSeven, it's website is SubSeven.ws. Surprisingly, it is perfectly safe and does not have any bad code. It's not even in the HOSTS file. They used to have screen shots of it that I would show you, but the site has changed so now they're offering more than SubSeven. And here is the Symantec write-up on SubSeven 1.0. There are more versions of it, but they all do the general thing.