| PC Cyborg Trojan | |
|---|---|
| Technical name | Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan |
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| Message after activation of AIDS | |
| Alias | AIDS!Trojan, Aidsinfo. A trojan, Aidsinfo. B trojan, Cyborg, Trj/AidsInfo. A, Trojan. AidsInfo.a, Trj/AidsInfo. B, Trojan. AidsInfo.b, Trojaids!Trojan, Love virus |
| Type | DOS |
| Subtype | DOS scrambler |
| Classification | Trojan |
| Family | AIDS Trojan |
| Origin | United States |
| Authors | Dr. Joseph Popp |
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AIDS, also known as Aids Info Drive or PC Cyborg Trojan, is a DOS Trojan horse whose payload mungs and encrypts the names of all directories on drive C:. It was developed by Dr. Joseph Popp (1950-2006), an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from Harvard. The virus was isolated in 1989.