by viruses. The first one to appear on the Amiga was a boot sector virus called SCA virus, which was detected in November 1987. A computer virus generally...
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compatibles. Brain affects the PC by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked...
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make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant until March 6, the birthday...
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abuse often occurs in the form of boot sector viruses. Since code in the boot sector is executed automatically, boot sectors have historically been a common...
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Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington,...
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security advisory organizations and anti-virus software developers compile and publish virus lists. When a new virus appears, the rush begins to identify...
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The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988...
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Flash BIOS. BIOSes that can be successfully written to by the virus have critical boot-time codes replaced with junk. This routine only works on some...
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Form was a boot sector virus isolated in Switzerland in the summer of 1990 which became very common worldwide. The origin of Form is widely listed as...
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OneHalf (redirect from OneHalf (computer virus))
OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus (hybrid boot and file infector) discovered in October 1994. It is also known as Slovak Bomber, Freelove...
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