This article is from the Computer viruses FAQ, by David Harley D.Harley@icrf.icnet.uk, George Wenzel gwenzel@telusplanet.net and Bruce Burrell bpb@umich.edu with numerous contributions by others.
There are several thousand known PC viruses, and the number 'in the
wild' is in the hundreds. It is not practical to include information
about all of these in this FAQ.
There are rarely enquiries about viruses on other computing platforms
raised in alt.comp.virus, but there is some information concerning
viruses on most platforms available at the Virus Test Center in Hamburg.
See the section above on Virus Descriptions for sites where information
is available.
 
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