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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...
Along the way, a name is attached to the virus. Since anti-virus software compete partly based on how quickly they react to the new threat, they usually study and name the viruses independently. By the time the virus is identified, many names have been used to denote the same virus.
Unlike the few Apple viruses that had come before which were essentially annoying, but did no damage, the Festering Hate series of viruses was extremely destructive, spreading to all system files it could find on the host computer (hard drive, floppy, and system memory) and then destroying everything when it could no longer find any uninfected ...
Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. An analysis of all the publicly available viral genome sequences yielded a surprising ...
See also Comparison of computer viruses. This is an alphabetical list of genera of biological viruses. It includes all genera and subgenera of viruses listed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 2022 release. [1] For a list of virus families and subfamilies, see List of virus families and subfamilies.
See also Comparison of computer viruses. This is an alphabetical list of biological virus families and subfamilies; it includes those families and subfamilies listed by the ICTV 2023 report. [1] For a list of individual species, see List of virus species. For a list of virus genera, see List of virus genera.
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Dismissing it would reboot the computer and then display the message again. Klez: October 2001 Koobface: December 2008 Targeted MySpace and Facebook users with a heading of "Happy Holidays". Leap-A: Oompa-Loompa Trojan worm February 14, 2006 Most known for being the first virus targeting Mac computers. Morris: November 2, 1988 Robert Tappan Morris