AIDS (Trojan horse)
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aids-trojan-horse-206-2846146
title:
AIDS (Trojan horse)
text:
AIDS, also known as Aids Info Drive or PC Cyborg Trojan, is a DOS Trojan horse whose payload mungs and encrypts the names of all directories on drive C:. It was developed by Dr. Joseph Popp (1950-2006), an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from Harvard. The virus was isolated in 1989.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early example of ransomware
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)
date created:
2005-07-10T23:51:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T15:56:24Z
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