Acme (computer virus)

Acme is a computer virus which infects MS-DOS EXE files. Each time an infected file is executed, Acme may infect an EXE in the current directory by creating a hidden 247 byte long read-only COM file with the same base name. (In MS-DOS, if the file extension is not specified, and two files with the same base name exist, one with .COM and one with .EXE, the .COM file will always be executed instead of the .EXE file.) Acme is a variant of Clonewar, a spawning virus. Acme is also perhaps a descendant of the small single-step infector Zeno, which is not to be confused with the Zeno programming language.

Acme
Technical name	Acme
Alias	Acme
Type	DOS (Windows 95 MS-DOS)
Subtype	EXE infector. Replicant.
Classification	Virus
Family	Acme
Origin	United States
Authors	Unknown