Threat Encyclopedia

Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically

Kaos4

This is a 697 bytes long non-resident virus infecting files with extensions COM and EXE. When an infected file is executed the virus tries to attack files in the current directory and files to which the route in the variable PATH leads. The time of the last file modification is not being altered but the number of seconds is equal to 58 or 62. Anti-heuristically written virus code contains the following coded string:

KAOS4 / Köhntark

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