Chernobyl Virus Affects Computers Are Running Windows

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In 1998, Chernobyl virus affects computers that are running Windows; it is one of the most viruses destructive, written by Taiwan's "Shan Ling is", the name "Chernobyl" in relation to "an incident Chernobyl" that took place in Ukraine in 1986 because of an explosion at a nuclear reactor. Chernobyl virus scans the boot drive to become the device is unable to load. At the same time it is trying to clear the BIOS," the basic Input/output System instructions that tell the computer to start", which often being protected from writing, so the people who are infected with this virus; they changed their device or rather change the motherboard of a computer. (BBC News, 1999) in 1991, Michelangelo virus was the worst virus that struck MS Dos'' Microsoft …show more content…

Especially it has come from a trusted source. No one doubted that his friends send him a virus From this point would be confident and open the message After the process repeated infected and the virus spreads quickly terrible, This virus penetrates the Word System in the infected machine and modifies it uses the infected Word files to send itself, which sends itself by e-mail lists in Microsoft Outlook Express and more than 50 people. (Carnegie Mellon University, 1999) In 2000, Love letter is a computer worm that spread quickly with exploiting the loophole of Windows system and the weakness of email system. It comes in the form of a love message and sends huge numbers of them titled "I Love You" . (f-secure,2015) In 2004, Santy worm used search engines like (Google - Yahoo -AOL) to reach the target websites that work program phpBB Forums "phpBB is an Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language, The name 'phpBB' is PHP Bulletin Board", the worm ask the search engine to create a list of websites that has loophole and Implemented through it To destroy all website contents and Showing a message stating that the website has been distortion by this virus.

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