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2. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Computer virus. 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 [1] is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.

3. Stoned (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   The virus will "safely" overwrite the boot sector if the root directory has no more than 96 files. The PC was typically infected by booting from an infected diskette. Computers, at the time, would default to booting from the A: diskette drive if it had a diskette. The virus was spread when a floppy diskette was accessed with an infected computer.

4. 1260 (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   1260, or V2PX, [1] [2] was a polymorphic computer virus written in 1989 by Mark Washburn. Derived from Ralf Burger's publication of the disassembled Vienna Virus source code, the 1260 added a cipher and varied its signature by randomizing its decryption algorithm. Both the 1260 and Vienna infect .COM files in the current or PATH directories ...

5. Michelangelo (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 3 February 1991 in Australia. [1] The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant until March 6, the birthday of ...

6. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. [1] Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United ...

7. MEMZ - Wikipedia

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   MEMZ (pronounced: memes [citation needed]) is a malware computer virus in the form of a trojan horse made for Microsoft Windows. The name of the virus refers to its purpose as a humorous virus intended to replicate the effects of early computer viruses.

8. McAfee: Disable or enable virus protection - AOL Help

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   3. In the Configure pane, click the Computer & Files link. 4. On the Computer & Files Configuration pane, under Virus protection is enabled, click the Off option. 5. In the confirmation dialog box, choose one of the following: To restart virus protection after a specified time, click the Select when to re-enable real-time scanning drop-down ...

9. AIDS (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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   AIDS is the first virus known to exploit the MS-DOS "corresponding file" vulnerability. In MS-DOS, if the user enters FOO in the command interpreter, in a directory where both FOO.COM and FOO.EXE exist, then FOO.COM will always be executed. Thus, by creating infected COM files, AIDS code will always be executed before the intended EXE file.