The unprecedented destructive power of CIH has made it a place in the history of computer virus annals. And this article has done a detailed development around the CIH computer virus. What day is April 26th just past, do you remember? Today is "World Intellectual Property Day". Tsinghua University celebrated its 109th anniversary. Thirty-four years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a forest fire is raging near the site, threatening the already fragile radiation-protected "sarcophagus". It is not Chernobyl, but the "Chernobyl virus" that makes more post-80s memories fresh.
The computer virus is so called in Europe, America and Japan because it broke out on the anniversary of the nuclear accident. In China, more people are familiar with the virus's real name, three English letters: CIH. The unprecedented job title email list destructive power of CIH has made it a place in the history of computer virus annals. In addition to destroying hard drive data, it was the first virus in history to cause hardware damage. Here's the story about the virus. 01 In 1999, 60 million computers were recruited Around the Spring Festival of 1999, Lin Xinglu, who was on duty in Shenzhen's "Yinghaiwei Time and Space" computer room, heard that there was a domestically developed chat software called OICQ,
which was very similar to ICQ developed by Israelis, except that it supported many cute cartoon avatars. Lin Xinglu downloaded a package, but the antivirus software immediately found that it carried the CIH computer virus that was quite popular at the time, and he deleted it without saying a word. This encounter made him start using QQ almost a year later than his friends. More than two months after the Spring Festival, the CIH virus ushered in its first large-scale global outbreak. CIH is the author of the virus, the initials of the name of Chen Yinghao, a young Taiwanese, and it is not to commemorate the Chernobyl accident that the virus was triggered on 4.
26, but only because that was the date when version 1.0 was completed: April 26, 1998 day. For the remainder of 1998, the CIH virus spread around the world in a variety of unexpected ways. In September 1998, the CD-R400 CD-R400 computer CD-ROM produced by Japan's Yamaha Company was found to have a CIH virus in its driver. In October, Activision, which has not yet merged with Blizzard, discovered that an online version of its first-person shooter, Original Sin (SiN) carried the CIH. In March 1999, IBM's personal computer brand, Activa, announced that they shipped thousands of computers in the United States with the CIH shipped from the factory.
At this time, there is only one month before the attack date of the 26th. No one knows if the users who bought these computers suffered losses. The news heralded the coming outbreak as a colossal disaster. On April 27, the day after the incident, the Korean Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communications estimated that 2-3% of the country's 8 million computers, or 240,000 computers, were infected. But local antivirus software developers estimate that as many as 600,000 computers were poisoned, located in about 1,000 private companies,
200 public utilities and 300 universities. Xinhua said more than 100,000 computers in mainland China were affected, with more than 5% severely damaged. Liu Xu, general manager and chief engineer of Rising, China's largest antivirus software maker, said, "Since yesterday, all our phones have been busy." The report said that three variants of the virus were found in China, on April 26, On June 26th and the 26th of each month. In addition, security firm Data Fellow Inc. initially counted 100 machines in Hong Kong, 200 in Singapore, 10 "big companies" in India,
and customers in the UK, Sweden, Japan, Malta, Finland and New Zealand were infected. Compared to Asia, the damage done by CIH in Europe and the United States is generally small; but you should not say that to the students at Boston College, because they lost the manuscript of their final thesis. Boston College students apparently ignored a warning from the school's IT department a few weeks ago. The outbreak was so bad that the school urged students not to turn on their computers until the 27th. A Boston College computer lab employee said,