How to remove Crew.2480

Crew.2480 – an old trojan you are unlikely to encounter

Crew.2480 is an ancient Trojan by comparison. First developed in Finland in 1992, it was not widely prevalent, although it managed to make a name for itself back in the days. This old trojan affects only DOS platforms, that's why it's harmless for most modern systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 8.

The Trojan usually performs a set of destructive actions, which can lead to undesirable effects. Although this parasite is out of circulation for a long period of time, it still can incidentally infect the system. In case you do, follow the removal guide below.

It is not largely known how this Trojan spreads, although it is likely to be external storage devices such as CDs, as DOS did not originally have networking capabilities. However, users could purchase the needed hardware and indeed connect to the internet, which could be used for the spread of the Trojan.

Once installed, the Trojan would immediately restart the PC. During installation, malware would infect various COM files on the system. To be precise, the Crew.2480 virus would only affect files that at least 10K in size, although this rule would only apply if the system's date's month is set to January through May. Trojan would also increase the size of the infected files by 2,480 bytes.

If the Trojan is installed during the months of June through December, it would not replicate but instead show the following message:

This program is cracked by European Cracking Crew
Notice this: TS ain't smart at all.
Distribution since 11-06-1987 (or 06-11-1987)

Press any key

Here are a few symptoms users might experience when the Trojan is in operation:

• random system reboots;
• increased size of .COM files;
• changes to time and date;
• system crashes and hangs.

In order to remove Crew.2480 from your computer, you have to find and delete the affected files.

MS-DOS also had malware

DOS is a very old platform that was used prior to Windows. It was developed by an independent programming developer and then purchased by Microsoft in 1980 and released to the public in 1985. Since then, users worldwide would use computers running MS-DOS platforms, up until the release of Windows systems which included a more modern graphical user interface (GUI).

In fact, you might be using the DOS platform even now, although it is hard to say that this operating system is user-friendly, especially for those who are used to sleek and modern UIs, and never had to deal with the operation of old systems.

The malware was around since the 80s, so it is not surprising that it also affected MS-DOS platforms. In most cases, users would infect their machines by connecting an external storage device that is infected by a virus.

Delete all the Crew.2480-associated files

Malware for DOS was relatively primitive and did not work the same way modern viruses or Trojans operate. Their functions were usually pretty limited and showed visible signs and symptoms of the infection. In order to delete such a virus, you would have to find the COM files which were affected by them and delete them.

You could also try anti-virus programs such as SpyHunterCombo Cleaner that could be able to scan your device for malicious programs and eliminate them automatically for you.