Navigation The Cih Virus The Michelangelo Virus - Hype And Fizzle The Nimda Virus Virus Hoaxes Spyware Overview By Akanett Web Publishing Imagine a program that watches your computer undetected, un-noticed.It sits in memory, watching everything the computer does--the websites it displays, the passwords used to get into Read more... Accurate knowledge properly applied is power. Austin Akalanze, Webmaster Garland, Texas USA  Online spyware removal You can get totally free spyware removal at Microsoft's  online spyware removal utility Onecare Spyware Removal Robert Tappan Morris and the Internet Worm By Akanett Web Publishing Robert Tappan Morris claims he only wanted to measure the size of the Internet, but he didn’t count on the speed and power of his program.He wrote a virus program that would spread to Read more...   The CIH Virus By Akanett Web Publishing On April 26, 1999, systems around the world began dying. Something was both damaging information on hard drives and damaging their BIOS chips. Investigation turned up the CIH Virus, later known as Chernobyl because it was released on the anniversary of the Chernobyl reactor explosion. The CIH virus somehow found it’s way onto a set of IBM Aptiva PC’s sold to Activision in March of 1999. Every copy of their latest game, SIN, came bundled with a bonus copy of the CIH virus. When it infects a system, the virus actually squeezes into empty spaces in operating system files. CIH was sometimes known as the Spacefiller virus for this ability. When the virus triggered, the first thing it did was to overwrite the first megabyte of the hard drive with zeroes. That area of the hard drive is critical, because that’s where the partition information is usually stored. Once the hard drive was hit, the virus would then turn to the BIOS chip. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. The BIOS chip is the ROM, or Read Only Memory, of the computer. Without the BIOS, the computer would forget how to “talk” to the other hardware in the computer, like the keyboard and hard drives. Normally, the BIOS is read-only. But by 1999, BIOS manufacturers had switched to chips that could be “flashed,” or reprogrammed. The CIH virus tried to use this ability to erase the BIOS. In effect, the virus would try to kill the computer, first by making the hard drive unreadable, and then by making sure the system wouldn’t boot without a new BIOS chip. Fortunately, due to a bug, the program only knew how to erase one brand of chips. CIH was still damaging computers in Asia a year after it first triggered, and several viruses have been released that try to infect systems with newer versions of CIH. You can find out more about the CIH Virus and other information and tips on spyware and other malware treats on this website Please subscribe to our newsletter Spywarefree. Your privacy is important to us. We will never share nor rent out your email. eMail address: First Name: Fix registry error and computer crashes! Remove harmful adware, spyware, trojan, dialers. Free trial ! Instant PC Repair with Error Doctor! Fix system slow downs and dll error ! Download free error nuker! Spyware|Adware alert and Remover! Clean your windows registry!  Remove hidden Spyware and adware permanently! Anti Virus protection and virus removal! The Most trusted Spyware and Adware removal software! Accurate Spyware and Adware knowledge, properly applied is power over malware. You can enhance your knowledge of adware and spyware and other malicious softwares such as dialers and browser hijackers. You now have the power. Use it. Here are your links again. Pages : 0 1 2 3 4 5  Home Directory   Spyware Articles script                 script   script                                                                                    Copyright © 2006. Allspywarefree.com All Rights Reserved