CIH Virus (1998): Demonstration

Today I'm gonna demonstrate the destructive power of the CIH virus, a computer virus made in 1998 by an IT student that is even able to destroy the BIOS! It's also called Spacefiller, because it writes its code in the empty spaces: this way file size remains the same and it bypasses antiviruses. Estimated worldwide damages amount to 35 million USD.

[@vasiovasio]

Wow, memories! This is the Chernobyl Virus! :)
Back then it was a Big Deal because infected the BIOS of our poor Pentium 166 MHz machines!
It is Unreal how Fast time passed...

[@Chitty_Gaming]

You got nuked buddy. The clicking sound is the Geigercounter going mad.

[@YT-AleX-1337]

It actually is related to Chernobyl then lol

[@hayder0687]

@@YT-AleX-1337 especially the april 26th date lol

[@islamicstateofukraine]

@@YT-AleX-1337 it was to reference to the guys birthday

[@knarf2570]

@@islamicstateofukraine no, it was the day the programmer finished the virus: April 26, 1998 - which also happened to be the 12th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. It probably got the name “Chernobyl virus” in public because of the date on which it became active every year.
The correct name of this virus was "CIH" and that has its origins in the initials of its programmer's name: Chen Ing-Hau, a Taiwanese computer scientist born August 25, 1975 - should be easy to verify.

[@islamicstateofukraine]

@@knarf2570 april 28? sorry buddy it was the 26th i think your dates are wrong

[@crboxyt]

Comunque vedere le BSOD in Italiano ha qualcosa di speciale hahahha