What was the aliens' weakness in Independence Day?

Question

Basically, I can't remember how they killed the aliens and I don't want to watch the rest of the movie cause I'm tired tonight. Talk to me.

Answer 1

a computer virus that weakend the shields so they can do damage to the ships and then they detinated a nuke in the "mother ship" and attempted to fire a missile causing that 1 ship to blow up but the guys missile didnt fire and so he flew and crashed into it causing it to back fire and boom... lol i pretty much just gave away the whole ending

Answer 2

Well, they didn't kill the aliens as much as they gave the technology a virus so that they could get through the defences. The aliens themselves were very killable.

They found an alien ship, in Nevada, that could be hot wired. They started it, loaded it with a computer and a virus, and a nuclear weapon. Then they allowed themselves to be taken back in to the Mother ship. They docked and allowed the computer virus to be up loaded and then fired the nuke into the ship.

Answer 3

They uploaded a computer virus into the alien ships' computers, and then the aliens' force fields came down and our warplanes were able to use conventional weapons to destroy their ships. I found that totally unrealistic because any alien race that could make ships that could go from one star to the other would have to have gotten past computer viruses, or at least, any virus OUR technology could have made.

Answer 4

The pilot (will smith) and (jeff goldblum)downloaded a virus into the mainships computer that brought down their shields momentarily, then they were able to take them all down....

Answer 5

there defences were all interconected so they lauched a virus into there mainframe and disabled them all but the key was to attack where their main weapon was (that big one on the bottom)