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Byte Bandit is a computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga. It appeared in January 1988. It is a boot sector virus. It was created by SCA - see SCA virus.

It was one of the most feared Amiga viruses until the infamous Lamer Exterminator because not only did it spread from system to system automatically, it was also destructive.

Byte Bandit made no attempt to disguise itself, as modern viruses, trojans and worms do. While it naturally over-wrote the bootblock (see SCA virus for information on this type of damage) it also hooked into the system, remaining reset-resident and causing system data corruption and system failures. The virus increments a copy counter every time it writes itself to a disk, which is in the text string "Virus by Byte Bandit in 9.87. Number of copys:" which also gives a date of September 1987 for the creation, as well as the assumed name of the programmer.

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