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W32/Acespade-A

Aliases
  • LNK/AceSpades virus
  • LNK.Aspade
  • LNK_ACESPADES.A
  • Trojan.WinLNK.Acespades.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Infected files
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 10 January 2005 13:30:37 (GMT)
Last updated 17 October 2008 22:36:14 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Acespade-A is a shortcut file overwriting virus.

W32/Acespade-A searches for files with a LNK extension and replaces them, usually with a copy of itself. The original file is often called "[ ace of spades ].lnk".

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