SciShow's video: 5 More Computer Viruses You Really Don t Want to Get

From taking your files ransom to foiling uranium enrichment, here are five more computer viruses that you really want to avoid. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Accalia Elementia, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Mike Frayn, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Kathy Philip, Patrick D. Ashmore, Thomas J., charles george, and Bader AlGhamdi. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=637244 http://olixzgv.berghel.net/col-edit/digital_village/nov-01/dv_11-01.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20110722192419/http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Security-Advisories/AL20010717 http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/BIOS-basic-input-output-system http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Chernobyl-virus https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/04/26/memories-of-the-chernobyl-virus/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/youre-infected-if-you-want-to-see-your-data-again-pay-us-300-in-bitcoins/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/12/destructive-malware-cryptolocker-on-the-loose/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-leads-multi-national-action-against-gameover-zeus-botnet-and-cryptolocker-ransomware https://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon?language=en -620331 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimespolitics&pagewanted=all http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet-the-most-menacing-malware-in-history/ https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/ http://ece.wpi.edu/~dchasaki/papers/Stuxnet_Under_the_Microscope.pdf http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/ Images: Bios Chip: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bios_chip-2011-04-11.jpg