List of computer viruses (E–K)

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Name

Alias(es)

Type

Subtype

Isolation Date

Isolation

Origin

Author

Notes

Earthday

Eclypse

ECV

Ed

Edcl

EDV

Egg

Egg is a computer virus that affects the COM. and EXE files.

DOS

Dec 1991

Elk Cloner

Apple II

Rich Skrenta

The first virus observed "in the wild"

Daniel Velazquez

EMF

EMO

Enemy|

A virus that causes the computer to constantly access the floppy drive, resulting in a slower computer.

A virus

Also a virus.

NA.

Removable hardware.

Michael Harrison.

It first appeared on the network on 2 February 2011; however, it may have been hiding there weeks prior to the discovery.

ETC

Macintosh emulator

Targeted pirated versions of the Aladdin emulator.

Friday the 13th - Version A

w32.Assarm

Windows

XP

6-23-2008

G

Created from original identity 'Gotchix'

Spread on Facebook through 'add friend' linkage

Got-you

Grapje

Graveyard

Graybird (Backdoor Graybird, Backdoor Graybird P)

H-2

HA

MS-DOS
Windows 95, Windows 98

August 1996

Unknown

Famous for press coverage which blew its destructiveness out of proportion

HBT

Hi

HS

I-B

IDF

Ill

4-1993

1988

13-3-1992

Malicious, triggered on Friday the 13th.

INIT 9403

SysX

3-1994

Very destructive, destroys all data. Found only on Italian systems so far.

INIT-M

4-1993

Malicious, triggered on Friday the 13th.

IOU

IT

IVP

Jonathan (malware)

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