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CIH

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Chernobyl virus data

File type: Dangerous and malicious file

Files with cih extension were in the past generated by Chernobyl virus. Very dangerous.

What is cih file?

File type category:
Dangerous and malicious file

Date updated: February 9, 2017

Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.

The cih file extension was sometimes used by a very dangerous Chernobyl virus (also known as Spacefiller) that first appeared in 1998.

Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives, and in some cases destroying the system BIOS.

Very dangerous, should be purged using anti-virus software.

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