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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Edwin





NAME:Edwin
TYPE:Resident Boot sectors

This is a simple boot viruses which infects DOS boot sectors on both floppies and hard drives. It does nothing beside replicating. Edwin has been reported to be in the wild in several countries during 1996-1997.

[Analysis: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure]