ARCV-n is a large family of viruses authored by the Association of Really Cruel Viruses (
ARCV) group through October - November 1992. and polymorphed with the
PS-MPC virus generation tool (hence they are very similar). A polymorphic virus mutates itself to avoid detection by traditional antivirus and antimalware software. ARCV-n viruses seem to infect
COM
Com or COM may refer to:
Computing
* COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers
* COM file, or .com file, short for "command", a file extension for an executable file in MS-DOS
* .com, an Internet top-level d ...
(perhaps ) and/or
EXE
Exe or EXE may refer to:
* .exe, a file extension
* exe., abbreviation for executive
Places
* River Exe, in England
* Exe Estuary, in England
* Exe Island, in Exeter, England
Transportation and vehicles
* Exe (locomotive), a British locomotive ...
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.
The ARCV group of virus writers created close to 100 new viruses in the 3 months they were active, before they were raided by New Scotland Yard in December, January, and February 1993.
Select ARCV viruses were still being circulated at least through 1998, based on virus tables from the
Computer Incident Advisory Capability Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) was the original computer security incident response team at the United States Department of Energy. CIAC was formed in February 1989, and jointly sponsored by the DOE Office of the CIO and the Air Force. ...
.
External links
ARCV-n by McAfee
*Copies of ARCV-n behavior listings availabl
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References
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DOS file viruses