Common name N/A Family ARCV-n Type DOS | Technical name N/A Classification Virus | |
Aliases ARCV-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10, -10B; ARCV.335, 339, 541, 562, 639, 651, 664, 670, 679, 693, 718, 745, 773, 795, 795.b, 826, 827, 839, 916, 916.b, 965, 986, 1060, 1072, 1172, 1208 | ||
ARCV-n is a term for a large family of viruses authored by the ARCV group through October - November 1992 and polymorphed with the PS-MPC virus generation tool (hence they are very similar). ARCV-n viruses seem to infect COM (perhaps command.com) and/or EXE files rapidly, but do not damage the compromised machine, instead displaying various text messages to the user. An infected file will have the ARCV-n virus appended to the end of it.
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