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hipo posted an update 9 years, 7 months ago
Chernobyl Computer Virus (CIH), do you still remember it? It was infecting PCs and being activated only on the date of Chernobyl catastrophy in Ukrainian SSR on April 26 1986 making the computer absolutely unusable rewriting the BIOS in a way that in order to make the PC workable again a complete BIOS reprogramming was necessery with a special device connected.
For those who want to recall the virus more clearly here is also a video of Chernobyl destroying a PC – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnWFAx5vJgCIH (computer virus) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus which first emerged in 1998. Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives, and in some cases destroying the system BIOS. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau (陳盈豪, pinyin: Chén Yíngháo) who was a student at Tatung University in Taiwan.[1] 60 million computers were believed to be infected by the virus internationally, resulting in an estimated $1 billion US dollars in commercial damages.[1]
Some PCs got fixed after a Chernobyl by flushing the bios memory by removing the battery, though this really depended on the vendor AmiBIOS (American Megtrends), AwardBIOS etc.