Variants include: The most affected countries were Russia, Vietnam and Brazil, followed by Spain, Mexico, Iran, Azerbaijan, India and the Philippines.
[1] The name refers to elang brontok, a bird species native to South & Southeast Asia.
The worm also carried out a ping flood attack on two websites: Israel.gov.il and playboy.com, possibly in an act of hacktivism.
Brontok inspired the creation of a more persistent trojan/worm such as Daprosy Worm which attacked internet cafes in July 2009.
The computer also restarts when trying to open the Windows Command Prompt and prevents the user from downloading files.