Acme (computer virus)
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Common name | Acme |
Technical name | Clonewar.247 |
Aliases | |
Family | N/A |
Classification | Virus |
- Type | DOS |
- Subtype | EXE infector. Replicant. |
Isolation | 1992 |
- Point of Isolation | Unknown |
- Point of Origin | United States |
Author(s) | Unknown |
Acme is a computer virus which infects EXE files. Each time an infected file is executed, Acme may infect an EXE in the current directory by creating a hidden 247 byte long read-only COM file with the same base name. Acme is a variant of Clonewar, a spawning virus. Acme is also perhaps a descendant of the small single-step infector Zeno, which is not to be confused with the Zeno programming language.
[edit] External links
- Computer Viruses (A), by Probert Encyclopedia
- Clonewar virus, by McAfee
- ACME COMPANION VIRUS for Crypt Newsletter 9