Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically

Littlered.A, Littlered.B

These are stealth, memory resident COM and EXE infectors. When the infected file is executed the virus installs itself into memory. Files are attacked as they are executed and copied. While the virus is in memory no increase of length can be seen on the attacked files when the DOS command DIR is used. When program NC or VC is used the increase in length is visible. The amount of memory for DOS decreases by 1744 bytes. The virus does not contain any destructive routines.

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