Chernobyl virus turned 27 today, and it could brick your PC in ways modern malware can't by overwriting BIOS firmware
27 years ago today, on April 26, 1999, a 1 KB virus called CIH detonated its payload on hundreds of thousands of Windows 9x machines worldwide.
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