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2. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   February 11: The Simile virus is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly. Beast is a Windows-based backdoor Trojan horse, more commonly known as a RAT (Remote Administration Tool). It is capable of infecting almost all versions of Windows.

4. Category:Computer viruses - Wikipedia

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5. Comparison of computer viruses - Wikipedia

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   The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus geared at children. Ping-pong: Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A, VeraCruz DOS Boot sector virus 1988-03 Turin: Harmless to most computers RavMonE.exe: RJump.A, Rajump, Jisx Worm 2006-06-20 Once distributed in Apple iPods, but a Windows-only virus SCA: Amiga Boot ...

6. CIH (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   On December 31, 1999, Yamaha shipped a software update to their CD-R400 drives that was infected with the virus. In July 1998, a demo version of the first-person shooter game Sin was infected by one of its mirror sites. [7] CIH's dual payload was delivered for the first time on April 26, 1999, with most of the damage occurring in Asia. [8]

7. Macro virus - Wikipedia

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   An example of a macro virus is the Melissa virus which appeared in March 1999. When a user opens a Microsoft Word document containing the Melissa virus, their computer becomes infected. The virus then sends itself by email to the first 50 people in the person's address book. This made the virus replicate at a fast rate. [4]

8. Sality - Wikipedia

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   Sality is a family of polymorphic file infectors, which target Windows executable files with the extensions .EXE or .SCR. [1] Sality utilizes polymorphic and entry-point obscuring (EPO) techniques to infect files using the following methods: not changing the entry point address of the host, and replacing the original host code at the entry point of the executable with a variable stub to ...

9. Category:Viruses - Wikipedia

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   About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... For articles about Computer viruses see Category: ... Chimera (virus)