Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p AIDS II is a companion computer virus, which infects COM files. It was first discovered in April 1990, and is a variant of AIDS. Unlike other generic file infectors, AIDS II was the second known virus to employ what could be called a "corresponding file technique" of infection so that the original target EXE file is never changed.(The original AIDS was the first.) The virus takes advantage of the DOS feature where if a file exists in both COM and EXE form, the COM file is executed.. }
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- AIDS_II comment "AIDS II is a companion computer virus, which infects COM files. It was first discovered in April 1990, and is a variant of AIDS. Unlike other generic file infectors, AIDS II was the second known virus to employ what could be called a "corresponding file technique" of infection so that the original target EXE file is never changed.(The original AIDS was the first.) The virus takes advantage of the DOS feature where if a file exists in both COM and EXE form, the COM file is executed.".