Deltahorse35V5

Deltahorse35V5 was a trojan virus known as being the worst trojan horse attack in the history of ATBW Blog, lasting from February 4, 2003 to January 28 2006, damaging more than one company at a time, with the first one being Merrill Studios (making this the second trojan horse after Merilhorse96V1 in 1996), with the trojan horse being installed to many other major ATBW Blog studio companies. ATBW Blog eventually saw January 28, 2006 as the official end of the attack.

The virus damaged a lot of those company's computers and even impacted computers at ATBW Blog's headquarters office by transmitting a computer virus that destroys those computers, as well as attempting to steal everything from those computers for the company that made it to be able to make and sell pirated content. At least $350,000 dollars worth of documents, movies, tv shows, games, and even important information were stolen and possibly being sold online, thus causing prolonged delays to many projects, though most were still released on time nonetheless.

The company that made it, not known, has been around since at least the late 1990's before the virus was made, eventually leading to the company being shut down by the FBI in the late 2000's. The virus has caused major issues with server farms, as well as performance of those computers affected. The people behind it were also arrested for the creation and damage to these computers.

How it works
Unlike the previous trojan horses, which were made by one or two people, this one was made by an unknown company that had been around since the late 1990's. The horse was transmitted onto the company's affected computers and injected a virus that injects worms, which completely destroyed affected computers, and even injected worms into online games as well.

Due to the complexity, severity and seriousness of the virus, not much is known about it, except that it injected worms into computers. The worms injected would casually damage the infected computers and exploit information in order to steal information from those computers and sell them, and an actual virus injected called "BurnYou," named after what it does to computers, to which it overheats them entirely and eventually makes the computers explode or catch fire as the virus shuts down the cooling fan. The trojan horse was not an actual program like most ransomwares, which made it very hard to destroy and remove as the trojan horse made back doors on these computers allowing the creators of the virus to gain access to thousands of sensitive information.

Aftermath
Infected companies installed anti-attack agent software on their system computers to prevent any further attacks from happening. Deltahorse35V5 has been called the worst trojan horse in ATBW Blog history, lasting for 3 years, and many companies affected still struggle to this day. Many measures were taken to prevent further vandalism and viruses from attacking any computers again in the near future.

Watercolor studios, which already previously had a small one in late 2002, was mostly unaffected, but still paid tribute to other ATBW Blog companies for damages done to their computers, installing security programs and replacing badly damaged computers was done from them and Pagoda studios as well. As a consequence of the mass attack by the trojan horse and its worms sent, ATBW Blog and smaller ATBW Blog companies have been under critical threat ever since the mid 2000's, though this trojan horse never appeared again since 2006.

Legacy
During the mid 2000's, many advertisements were launched on the site and even other ATBW owned sites like Awika and PBLOG had advertisements to stop the attack of Deltahorse35V5. There were even TV commercials from May 2003 to October 2005 to stop the virus from attacking the site. Many of these ads aired primarily on ATBW owned TV stations, but also did air on some other networks as well, not ATBW ones. The attack is still remembered to this day.

The trojan horse attack in June 2003 went from an emergency to an online war, many referring to this era as the "Deltahorse35V5 Trojan War," which was the major enemy against ATBW Blog. As the virus attacked and killed almost all computers in many ATBW Blog Studios (Merrill Studios, Signature Studios, Rose Gold Studios, Wedgehead Studios, and Calligraphy Studios), many of them struggled to implement upgrades to their computers as their computers were killed in effort for the company behind it to be able to sell ATBW movies illegally. The peak was reached in April 2005, at the same time still greatly affecting games and constantly destroying company computers.

Many of these companies were not owned by ATBW at the time of this era, but even those owned were still vulnerable, and was even the one behind the 2004 ATBW Blog Crisis, where the companies and even ATBW Blog themselves were near bankrupt, and was the first crisis since the 2000 ATBW Blog Crisis, making a 4 year gap between. ATBW Blog still continues struggling and is still under threat to this day after the virus attack.

As a result of this attack, all ATBW Blog companies at any and all future AE3 Expo Tours were required to go virtual starting in 2006 and onward, as the new systems allowing this that were installed there were protected to prevent any further trojan virus attacks like this in the future. The older systems installed in 1990 lacked these protection systems, thus were damaged easily. However though, many decline this as going virtual would barely do anything as a computer virus infects computer systems, and this will hardly do much. The rule was still approved nonetheless on July 10, 2005, requiring all persons running their respective companies to go virtual from 2006 and onward to prevent any further ransomware attacks, as the virus has been known to make a number (not all) of computers to literally explode and catch fire, including two at AE3 Expo Tour 2005. This rule has been enforced since and is unlikely to be abolished for safety reasons.

In response, CLP (owned by ATBW Label Networks since 1996) began airing news that was almost exclusively to the Deltahorse35V5 attack, and ANN (also owned by ATBW Label Networks since 2006) also started airing news on its main network, and its division CANN, ESANN, and WANN news networks (became near exclusive after acquisition until 2006 after it finally ended).