List of computer viruses (L-R)
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| Name | Alias(es) | Type | Subtype | Isolation Date | Isolation | Origin | Author | Notes | ||||
| L1 | Infects .COM files. Affects the computers runtime operation and corrupts data files. | |||||||||||
| Label | h1n1 | |||||||||||
| Lamer Exterminator | Amiga, Boot sector virus | October 1989 | Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Random encryption, fills random sector with "LAMER" | ||||||||
| Lanc | ||||||||||||
| Lanc5476 | ||||||||||||
| Lanc5882 | ||||||||||||
| Larry | ||||||||||||
| Lazy | ||||||||||||
| LCV | ||||||||||||
| Leapfrog | ||||||||||||
| Leech | ||||||||||||
| Lehigh | ||||||||||||
| Leper AOD | ||||||||||||
| Leprosy | Infects COM.And EXE. Files after its visual payload on DOS | |||||||||||
| Les | ||||||||||||
| Lib1172 | ||||||||||||
| Liberty | ||||||||||||
| Liquid Code - 2 | ||||||||||||
| Liquid Code | ||||||||||||
| Lisbon | ||||||||||||
| Little Brother | ||||||||||||
| Little Girl | ||||||||||||
| Little Pieces | ||||||||||||
| Little | ||||||||||||
| LixoNuke | ||||||||||||
| Loa Duong | ||||||||||||
| LockJaw | ||||||||||||
| Lockz | ||||||||||||
| LPT-OFF | ||||||||||||
| Lycee | ||||||||||||
| Mabuhay | ||||||||||||
| Macedonia | ||||||||||||
| MacMag MacMag (computer virus) The MacMag virus, also known by various other names, was a computer virus introduced in 1988 by Richard Brandow, who at the time was editor and publisher of MacMag computer magazine in Montréal.-Operation of the virus:... |
Drew, Bradow, Aldus, Peace | 12-1987 | ||||||||||
| Madcow | ||||||||||||
| Magnitogorski 3 | ||||||||||||
| Magnum | ||||||||||||
| Malage | ||||||||||||
| Malaise | ||||||||||||
| Malign | ||||||||||||
| Malmsey Habitat v3.b | ||||||||||||
| Malmsey2 | ||||||||||||
| Malmsey | ||||||||||||
| Maltese Amoeba | ||||||||||||
| Malware Defense | ||||||||||||
| Mannequin | ||||||||||||
| Manola | ||||||||||||
| Manta | ||||||||||||
| Many Fingers | ||||||||||||
| Marauder | ||||||||||||
| Mardi Bros . | ||||||||||||
| MAS Mas Mas or Más may refer to:* Mas , a surnameIn arts:* Más , an album by Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz* "Más", a song by Kinky from their 2002 album Kinky... |
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| Mark II | ||||||||||||
| Marzia | ||||||||||||
| Math Test | ||||||||||||
| Matura | ||||||||||||
| Mayak | ||||||||||||
| Mazor | Trojan | worm/virus | 2-2008 | infects .exe files | ||||||||
| MBDF | 2-1992 | |||||||||||
| MCWH1022 | ||||||||||||
| McWhale | ||||||||||||
| MDEF MDEF (computer virus) MDEF was a computer virus affecting Macintosh machines. There are four known strains. The first, MDEF A , was discovered in May 1990. Strains B , C, and D were discovered in August 1990, October 1990, and January 1991, respectively.... |
Garfield, Top Cat | 5-1990 | ||||||||||
| Meditation | ||||||||||||
| MegM | ||||||||||||
| Melissa Melissa (computer worm) The Melissa virus, also known as "Mailissa", "Simpsons", "Kwyjibo", or "Kwejeebo", is a mass-mailing macro virus. As it is not a standalone program, it is not a worm.-History:... |
1999 | part macro virus and part worm | ||||||||||
| Memory Lapse | ||||||||||||
| MG | ||||||||||||
| Michelangelo Michelangelo (computer virus) The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered in April 1991 in New Zealand. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, basically operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the... |
April 1991 | New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... |
Ran March 6 (Michelangelo Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art... 's birthday) |
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| Michelangelo II | ||||||||||||
| Mindless | ||||||||||||
| Mini | ||||||||||||
| Mini-125 | ||||||||||||
| Mini-132 | ||||||||||||
| Mini-195 | ||||||||||||
| Mini-207 | ||||||||||||
| Minimax | ||||||||||||
| Minimite | ||||||||||||
| Minsk-GH | ||||||||||||
| Mir | ||||||||||||
| Mirror | ||||||||||||
| Missouri | ||||||||||||
| Mix2 | ||||||||||||
| Moctezuma | ||||||||||||
| Monika | ||||||||||||
| Monkey | ||||||||||||
| Mono | ||||||||||||
| Monxla | ||||||||||||
| Monxla-B | ||||||||||||
| More | ||||||||||||
| Mosquito | ||||||||||||
| Mozkin | ||||||||||||
| Mr. G | ||||||||||||
| Mr. Vir | ||||||||||||
| MS Antivirus MS Antivirus (malware) MS Antivirus is a scareware rogue anti-virus which claims to remove fake virus infections found on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It attempts to scam the user into purchasing a "full version" of the software.... |
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| Msk | ||||||||||||
| Mudd | Script | Atomical | ||||||||||
| Mugshot | ||||||||||||
| Mule | ||||||||||||
| Multi | ||||||||||||
| Multi-11 | ||||||||||||
| Multi-2 | ||||||||||||
| Mummy | ||||||||||||
| Munich | ||||||||||||
| Murphy | ||||||||||||
| Music Bug | ||||||||||||
| Mutant | ||||||||||||
| Mutating Interrupt | ||||||||||||
| Mutation Engine | ||||||||||||
| Mystic | ||||||||||||
| NAPC | ||||||||||||
| Navidad Navidad virus W32.Navidad is a mass-mailing worm program or virus designed to spread through email clients such as Microsoft Outlook.It replies to all emails with an attachment using the original subject line.-Source:*... |
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| Nazi | ||||||||||||
| Natas Natas (computer virus) Natas is a virus written by James Gentile, a then-18-year-old hacker from San Diego, California who went by the alias of "Little Loc" and later "Priest". It is a memory-resident stealth virus that is highly polymorphic. The virus first appeared in Mexico City in May 1992, spread by a consultant... |
Multipartite, stealth, polymorphic | 1994 | "Priest" | |||||||||
| N-Beta | ||||||||||||
| NCU Li | ||||||||||||
| Necro | ||||||||||||
| Necrophilia | ||||||||||||
| Necrosoft | ||||||||||||
| NED | ||||||||||||
| New Sunday | ||||||||||||
| New Zealand | ||||||||||||
| Vesion 1.0.0.0 | ||||||||||||
| New-1701 | ||||||||||||
| NewBug | ||||||||||||
| Newcom | ||||||||||||
| Next Generation | ||||||||||||
| Neznamy | ||||||||||||
| Night Grawler | ||||||||||||
| Nina | ||||||||||||
| Nines Compliment | ||||||||||||
| Ninja | ||||||||||||
| No Par | ||||||||||||
| No Wednesday | ||||||||||||
| Nobock | ||||||||||||
| NoCopy | ||||||||||||
| No-Int | ||||||||||||
| Nomenclature | ||||||||||||
| NOP | ||||||||||||
| Not-586 | ||||||||||||
| Nov17 | ||||||||||||
| NPox 2.0 | ||||||||||||
| NPox 2.1 | ||||||||||||
| Null | ||||||||||||
| Number 6 | ||||||||||||
| Number of The Beast | ||||||||||||
| nVIR NVIR (computer virus) nVIR is an obsolete computer virus which can replicate on Macintosh computers running any System version from 4.1 to OS 8. The source code to the original nVIR has been made widely available, and so numerous variants have arisen... |
1987 | |||||||||||
| Nygus-KL | ||||||||||||
| Nutty Mouse | Malfunctions the mouse while putting itself to the system. | |||||||||||
| Offspring | ||||||||||||
| Off Stealth | ||||||||||||
| Ohio | ||||||||||||
| Omega | ||||||||||||
| Omt | ||||||||||||
| OneHalf OneHalf (computer virus) OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus . It is also known as Slovak Bomber, Freelove or Explosion-II. It infects master boot record of the hard disk, COM files and executable files. It will not infect files that have SCAN, CLEAN, FINDVIRU, GUARD, NOD, VSAFE, MSAV or CHKDSK in the name... |
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| Ontario.1024 Ontario.1024 (computer virus) Ontario.1024 is a computer virus, discovered in October 1991, over a year after the isolation of the first Ontario virus, Ontario.512. Relative to Ontario.512, most additions involve making the virus harder to detect.-Infection:... |
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| Ontario.2048 Ontario.2048 (computer virus) Ontario.2048 is a computer virus, discovered in September 1992. It is the third and final known variant of the Ontario family, both chronologically and in complexity... |
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| Ontario Ontario (computer virus) Ontario.512 is a computer virus, discovered in July 1990. It is named after its point of isolation, the Canadian province of Ontario. Because Ontario.1024 was also discovered in Ontario, it is likely that both viruses originate from within the province... |
1990 | |||||||||||
| Oropax | ||||||||||||
| Otto-415 | ||||||||||||
| Over4032 | ||||||||||||
| Oxana | ||||||||||||
| P1 | ||||||||||||
| P-45 | ||||||||||||
| P529 | ||||||||||||
| PA-5792 | ||||||||||||
| Page B | ||||||||||||
| Page | ||||||||||||
| Parite | ||||||||||||
| Parity B | ||||||||||||
| Payday | ||||||||||||
| PC Cyborg | ||||||||||||
| PC Flu | ||||||||||||
| PCBB11 | ||||||||||||
| PCBB3072 | ||||||||||||
| PCBB5B | ||||||||||||
| PCV | ||||||||||||
| PE2 | ||||||||||||
| Peach | ||||||||||||
| Peek | ||||||||||||
| Pegg | ||||||||||||
| Peking | ||||||||||||
| Penis Size | ||||||||||||
| Pentagon | ||||||||||||
| Penza | ||||||||||||
| Perfume | ||||||||||||
| Phantom | ||||||||||||
| Pharmacy | "william dube henry" (sender) | This virus is sent through email. The email contains a link, to "pharmacy.php", when the link is accessed, the virus is installed into the system. | ||||||||||
| Phoenix | ||||||||||||
| PI | ||||||||||||
| Pig | ||||||||||||
| Pikachu virus Pikachu virus The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus targeted towards children. It contains the character "Pikachu" from the Pokémon series, and is in the form of an e-mail titled "Pikachu " with the message: "Pikachu is your friend."... |
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| Ping-pong Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy... |
Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A, VeraCruz | Boot sector virus | Harmless to most computers | |||||||||
| Pizelun | ||||||||||||
| PL | ||||||||||||
| Platinum | ||||||||||||
| PLO | ||||||||||||
| Popular | ||||||||||||
| Porridge | ||||||||||||
| Poshkill | ||||||||||||
| Possessed | ||||||||||||
| Predator Dropper | ||||||||||||
| Prabhagaran | ||||||||||||
| Predator | ||||||||||||
| Pregnant | ||||||||||||
| Prime Evil B | ||||||||||||
| Prime | ||||||||||||
| Print Monster | ||||||||||||
| Print Screen | ||||||||||||
| Prism | ||||||||||||
| Prob-734 | ||||||||||||
| Problem | ||||||||||||
| Proto-T | ||||||||||||
| Prudents | ||||||||||||
| Quamo | ||||||||||||
| Qakbot | Used to create a botnet that steals bank account and other information. | |||||||||||
| Rabbit | Infects the operational memory. It's one of the fastest copying viruses and makes the computer totally unuseful. | |||||||||||
| Random | ||||||||||||
| Rattle | ||||||||||||
| Raubkopi | ||||||||||||
| RavMonE.exe RavMonE.exe RavMonE, known more correctly as RJump, is a Trojan that opens a backdoor on computers running Microsoft Windows. Once a computer is infected, the virus allows unauthorized users to gain access to the computer's contents... |
RJump.A, Rajump, Jisx | Worm | 2006-06-20 | Once distributed in Apple iPods IPod iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle... , but a Windows-only virus |
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| Reaper | ||||||||||||
| Reader s | A malware that infects a computer and damages system core files, sometimes making BSOD BSoD BSoD is an initialism. It may stand for:* Blue Screen of Death* Black Screen of Death... and disabling anti-viruses. This is a high-risk computer virus. |
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| Rebo-715 | ||||||||||||
| Red Cross | ||||||||||||
| Red Team | ||||||||||||
| RedX | ||||||||||||
| Reklama | ||||||||||||
| Relzfu | ||||||||||||
| Replicator | ||||||||||||
| Reset | ||||||||||||
| Revelation | ||||||||||||
| Romanian | ||||||||||||
| Russian Tiny | ||||||||||||
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