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Hex dump showing "Your PC is now Stoned!" statement at the last 512-byte sector of Master Boot Record. Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington, New Zealand. [1][2] By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and Australia, [3] and ...
The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko. Popularized by Japanese ...
Medusavirus. Medusavirus is a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus first isolated from a Japanese hot spring in 2019. [1] It notably encodes all five types of histones — H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 — which are involved in DNA packaging in eukaryotes, raising the possibility that they may have been involved in the origin of eukaryotes. [1]
Alphapithovirus, first described in a 2014 paper, is a genus of giant virus known from two species, Alphapithovirus sibericum, which infects amoebas, [2] [3] and Alphapithovirus massiliense. [4] It is a DNA based virus and is a member of the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses clade.
The Alliance's weapon is a computer virus ("comp plague") secretly planted in Draka military computers by spies; the Draka's is a biological virus called the Stone Dogs that causes infected personnel to go insane. Yolande discovers Marya, who has contacted the OSS, planting the comp-plague and allows her to escape with knowledge of the Stone Dogs.
Plum pox. Plum pox, also known as sharka, is the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus. The disease is caused by the plum pox virus (PPV), and the different strains may infect a variety of stone fruit species including peaches, apricots, plums, nectarine, almonds, and sweet and tart cherries.
The Wildfire team, led by Dr. Jeremy Stone, believes that the satellite—intentionally designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation—returned with a deadly microorganism that kills through nearly instantaneous blood clotting. Upon investigating Piedmont, the team discovers the townspeople either died in mid ...
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran. [ 2 ]