Ada is a computer virus that can affect any of the DOS operating systems. Ada was first discovered in 1991.

History

Ada virus was first discovered in Argentina in .

Characteristics

Ada is a memory resident virus that infects files. The Ada virus mainly targets .COM files, specifically COMMAND.COM and stays in the memory of the computer it infects after the program it infected executes.

Infected programs have 2,600 bytes additional data inserted at the beginning of the file,