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Tiny Family

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Virus

Aliases:

  • Tiny Family

Summary

This is a family of at least 11 viruses, which do nothing of particular interest, but appear to be written in an attempt to write the smallest resident virus possible. The Micro-128 virus is still smaller, though.

Removal

Technical Details

Variant:Tiny.Ghost

This family member is quite a bit larger than the rest - 330 bytes long. It contains the following text, which is displayed when a certain virus scanner is run:

This scan program can't find me I'm a GHOST in your machine!!

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