Maltese Amoeba
aka Amoeba / Irish
- discovered
- 1991-11
- origin
- United Kingdom
- reported by
- Virus Bulletin
- author
- unknown
- family
- Amoeba
- size
- 2504 bytes
- platform
- DOS
- vector
- COM and EXE files
- payload
- destructive, polymorphic
- trigger
- March 15 and November 1
Payload
On trigger dates, overwrites the first sectors of every connected disk and displays a William Blake poem fragment.
~ writeup coming soon ~
Related specimens
Sources
- Virus Bulletin, December 1991 :: Virus Bulletin, December 1991, Maltese Amoeba writeup
last updated: 2026-04-12 :: curated by the_curator