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IOE

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Virus

Summary

This is a very simple overwriting virus.

Removal

Technical Details

When an infected file is run, the virus finds 15 clean COM files and overwrites their beginning with its own code. After this it displays the following text:

Invalid Opcode Error

The virus does nothing else.

IOE was reported to be in the wild in Finland in March 1996.

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