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2. Stoned (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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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, New Zealand. [1] [2] By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and Australia, [3] and variants became very common worldwide in the early 1990s.

3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   Appearance of Lehigh virus (discovered at its namesake university), [20] boot sector viruses such as Yale from the US, Stoned from New Zealand, Ping Pong from Italy, and appearance of the first self-encrypting file virus, Cascade. Lehigh was stopped on campus before it spread to the "wild" (to computers beyond the university), and as a result ...

4. Form (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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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 Switzerland, but this may be an assumption based on its isolation locale.

5. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Boot sector viruses specifically target the boot sector and/or the Master Boot Record [50] (MBR) of the host's hard disk drive, solid-state drive, or removable storage media (flash drives, floppy disks, etc.). [51] The most common way of transmission of computer viruses in boot sector is physical media.

6. 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 ...

7. Michelangelo (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   On other disks, the virus moves the original boot sector to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 14. This is the last directory of the 1.2 MB disks. This is the second-to-last directory of the 1.44 MB disks. The directory does not exist on 720 KB disks. Although designed to infect DOS systems, the virus can easily disrupt other operating systems ...

8. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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   When GRUB is installed on a hard disk, boot.img is written into the boot sector of that hard disk. boot.img has a size of only 446 bytes. A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk , floppy disk , optical disc , etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed ...

9. Brain (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   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 as bad. Infected disks usually have five kilobytes of bad sectors. The disk label is usually changed to ©Brain, and the following text can be seen in infected boot sectors: