I could see young me accidentally downloading this on the promise of a new art program or being able to play SiN. I couldn't imagine having to endure the headache of replacing your entire computer over this virus back in 1999/2000.
the only difference between v1.2 and v1.4 is that v1.4 activates on the 26th of any month instead of just april 26th the copyright string was changed and also v1.4 doesn't infect winzip self-extractors to quote the source code (which has been online since 2014 or so) "Full Modify the Bug : WinZip Self-Extractor Occurs Error." there might have been some later versions as well (but likely unofficial), cih.1046 and cih.1106 (named after their sizes) v1.0 and v1.1 were inert, and was just the dev figuring out how to infect apps without increasing the filesize and detect NT-based OSes (to not break immediately upon loading into an NT PE); they have no payload
Am. It is quite impossible to do it. For example it works only with 98 and 95. And it is very hard to do it, because official version will not even start the install process. You should have motherboard which can simulate ide hdd/cd system. It means that amd motherboard do not fetch to our porpuse. And even if you could do it, install, the max harm which you will get - empty hdd. Your bios will be ok, because it already has protection from CIH. At least most pentium 4 motherboards and amd analogies had this protection. So i think that modern motherboards also have
@@ВладимирГалицкий-х8цEven a 2009 MoBo that is SATA but yet has two available IDE ports, isn't compatible with Win9x? On example is mentioned one M61PMV (Chipset MCP61P) Foxconn MoBo, it has an option to enable bios write protection but it's disabled by default. Even with this write protection, would be this MoBo secure to this virus? Sure I don't use 9x but it's only curiosity. This PC can run Win10 well.
No, but coincidentally, one of our past developers was. This was mainly a gag because we were scrolling through the Character Map application and the Symbol font came up.
