By John Leyden
Published Thursday 14th October 2004 23:20Â_GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10...s_retro_virus/
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Bacros, first spotted a month ago, copies itself to all floppy disks it sees. It also attempts to burn itself to CD-R disks (complete with an AUTORUN file, which will run the virus when the CD-R is inserted to another machine). Unlike current worms - which often try to surreptitiously take over user's machines, Bacros caries a destructive payload.

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