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2. ABC (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   ABC, discovered in October 1992, is a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus which infects EXE files and may alter both COM and EXE files. ABC activates on the 13th day of every month. Upon infection, ABC becomes memory-resident at the top of system memory but below the 640 K DOS boundary and hooks interrupts 16 and 1C.

3. Abraxas (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Due to a bug in the virus, only the first EXE file in any directory is infected. Abraxas-infected files will become 1,171 bytes in length and contain Abraxas' viral code. The file's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will be set to the system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings can be found within the ...

4. Acid (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   Acid is a computer virus which infects .COM and .EXE files including command.com. Each time an infected file is executed, Acid infects all of the .EXE files in the current directory. Later, if an infected file is executed, it infects the .COM files in the current directory.

5. Comparison of computer viruses - Wikipedia

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   The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus geared at children. Ping-pong: Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A, VeraCruz DOS Boot sector virus 1988-03 Turin: Harmless to most computers RavMonE.exe: RJump.A, Rajump, Jisx Worm 2006-06-20 Once distributed in Apple iPods, but a Windows-only virus SCA: Amiga Boot ...

6. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

7. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is very difficult to detect even with up-to-date antivirus and other security software as it hides itself using stealth techniques. [5] It is considered that this is the primary reason why the Zeus malware then had become the largest botnet on the Internet: Damballa estimated that the malware infected 3.6 million PCs in the U.S. in 2009. [6]