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2. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   March 26: The Melissa worm was released, targeting Microsoft Word and Outlook -based systems, and creating considerable network traffic. June 6: The ExploreZip worm, which destroys Microsoft Office documents, was first detected. September: the CTX virus is isolated.

3. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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   Everything on the screen but the back Apple logo turns white. [7] A Yellow Screen of Death occurs when an ASP.NET web app finds a problem and crashes. [8] [self-published source?] A kernel panic is the Unix equivalent of Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death. It is a routine called when the kernel detects irrecoverable errors in runtime correctness ...

4. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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   WannaCry ransomware attack. The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. [4] It was propagated by using EternalBlue, an exploit ...

5. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   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[1] is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs. [2][3] If this replication succeeds, the affected ...

6. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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   In Windows 3.x, the black screen of death is the behavior that occurred when a DOS-based application failed to execute properly. It was often known to occur in connection with attempting certain operations while networking drivers were resident in memory. (Commonly, but not exclusively, it was seen while the Novell NetWare client for DOS, NETX ...

7. Virus hoax - Wikipedia

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   Virus hoax. A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients to forward it to everyone they know, but it can also be in the form of a pop-up window. [ 1 ][ 2 ]