Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eil's computer, like many others on the Harvard campus, was struck by the Chernobyl virus.
The virus, which was triggered on April 26, disabled several hundreds of thousands, of computers all over the world. as computer experts had warned it would. At Harvard, it hit students with end-of-the-year projects looming especially hard.
Only about 2,000 computers in the U.S. were hit, probably because use of virus protection software is more prevalent here than in other parts of the world, according to Bill Pollak, a spokesperson for Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). He said computer users could have downloaded...
"It lies dormant in the computer system and then delivers its payload on the 26th of April," he said.
Pollak said that most reports of the virus came from home computer users or college students. He speculated that large corporations might have escaped major damage because they tend to use effective anti-virus programs.