Twelve Tricks
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title:
Twelve Tricks
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Twelve Tricks is a Trojan horse that first appeared around 1990. Purdue University issued a bulletin about the Trojan on March 8, 1990. The Trojan came in an altered utility file called CORETEST.COM, which was intended to test performance of hard drives. It affected IBM platform computers running MS-DOS or PC DOS. The Trojan alters the master boot record and, at every reboot, it installs one of twelve "tricks" that causes issues with hardware or operation of the computer. The trick vanishes when
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Computer malware reported in 1990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tricks
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2023-03-25T23:28:24Z
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