These events led to new computer crime legislation in Taiwan.
Prosecutors in Taiwan could not charge Chen at the time because no victims came forward with a lawsuit. Chen stated that after the virus was spread across Tatung University by classmates, he apologized to the school and made an antivirus program available for public download the antivirus program was co-authored with Weng Shi-hao (翁世豪), a student at Tamkang University. Ĭhen claimed to have written the virus as a challenge against bold claims of antiviral efficiency by antivirus software developers. Sixty million computers were believed to be infected by the virus internationally, resulting in an estimated US$1 billion in commercial damages. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau (陳盈豪, pinyin: Chén Yíngháo) who was a student at Tatung University in Taiwan. Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives, and in some cases destroying the system BIOS. Antivirus intercept message on a Windows95 systemĬIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus which first emerged in 1998.
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