AIDS (Trojan horse)
| PC Cyborg Trojan | |
|---|---|
Message after activation of AIDS | |
| Malware details | |
| Technical name | Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan |
| Aliases | 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 |
| Isolation date | 1989 |
| Origin | United States |
| Author | Dr. Joseph Popp |
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.