Media Markt virus from 1995. Trashes all your drives!
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The Brain virus is considered the first PC virus. Created by Basit Farooq Alvi in 1986.
The Shatin virus (1995) activates on the 1st of any month, when it displays a full screen message (你死了 Translation: You Died or 毋忘我 – Don’t Forget Me written yellow on blue background) and hangs the computer.
Fellowship virus (1990). It attaches it to the end of .EXE files, but may overwrite the end of the original file. The virus itself is 1019 bytes long.
RP virus (1996) RP activates on the 17th of December. When the machine is booted on that date, the virus decrypts a message, switches the display to 40 column mode and displays the following text: RP wants to say hello! After this, the virus overwrites part of the hard drive, making the machine unbootable.
HLLC.Plane (1996).
Size: 8304 and written with Turbo Pascal.
HLLC.Plane activates by random. When it activates, it shows a character-based animation of a red plane flying past the screen and dropping a parachute in the middle of the screen.
The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small “ball” bouncing around the screen in both text mode (the ASCII bullet character “•”) and graphical mode.
