{"id":15434,"date":"2020-04-26T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/chernobyl-virus-melts-down-pcs-4\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:16:03","slug":"chernobyl-virus-melts-down-pcs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/chernobyl-virus-melts-down-pcs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1338\" title=\"Chernobyl Virus\" alt=\"Chernobyl Virus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92bf8__CIH.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>April 26, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The first known virus to target the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_BIOS\">flash BIOS<\/a> of a PC, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_virus\">CIH\/Chernobyl Virus<\/a> trigers on this day, erasing hard drives and disabling PCs primarily in Asia and Europe. One of the most destructive viruses in history, Turkey and South Korea alone report 300,000 infected systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/26\/chernobyl-virus-melts-down-pcs\/\">Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92bf8__11310030.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/11310030\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 1999 The first known virus to target the\u00a0flash BIOS of a PC, the CIH\/Chernobyl Virus trigers on this day, erasing hard drives and disabling PCs primarily in Asia and Europe. One of the most destructive viruses in history, Turkey and South Korea alone report 300,000 infected systems. &nbsp; Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3448,516,3449,2995],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-chernobyl","tag-down","tag-melts","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}