![]() In about a year after the virus’ appearance on March 26th 1999, the “time-bomb” in virus code caused a computer catastrophe when about half of a million computers were damaged because of virus infection: all of them lost data on the hard drive, and many of them also had the motherboard BIOS destroyed (plus hard-drive data damaged). In about a month, the infected files were accidentally put on several Web sites in the USA (game software distribution sites) that caused a global virus epidemic. Within a week, the virus was found in Austria,Īustralia, Israel, United Kingdom, and was also reported from several other countries (Switzerland, Sweden, USA, Russia, Chile, etc.). The virus (accidentally?) was posted at a local Internet conference that released the virus out of Taiwan. “in-the-wild” in Taiwan in June 1998, being released by its virus author who was studying at a local university at the time. (Portable Executable), which is about 1Kbyte in length. This is a Windows95/98 specific parasitic virus infecting Windows PE files ![]()
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