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Welcome to The Virus Encyclopedia, the wikia resource for information on computer viruses, worms and any self-replicating programs.

We are nearing the third anniversary of the current administration of this Wikia Wiki! On 2006 December 4th, this wiki was in a sad state, with only 15 pages, mostly stupid ones on joke programs along with some vandalism and spam. Today, we have over 100 pages, which is great progress, but as there are hundreds of thousands of malware programs, many of them self-replicating, there is still a long way to go.

Before editing any pages, we suggest that first-time users check out the Help pages. They are still mostly works in progress, but they can still provide some guidance in writing good entries, as well as inform readers about our rules and standards.

Currently, we have 112 pages on this wiki.

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Recently Added

• Tequila, an armored multipartite virus.
• Flip, a multipartite virus.
• Anthrax, a mutipartite virus by Dark Avenger.
• Joshi, a boot sector infector from 1990.
• Chameleon, the first polymorphic virus.
• Swap, a boot sector virus with a payload similar to that of Cascade.
• Trackswap, a Bulgarian virus.
• Murphy, a Bulgarian virus very similar the Dark Avenger's Eddie.
• Conficker, a worm whose danger was hyped by the media.
• Pixel, a DOS prepender.
• Stupid, a virus that causes system hangs.