Byte Bandit is a boot sector computer virus created for the Amiga personal computer.
In contrast to the feared Amiga viruses like the infamous Lamer Exterminator and SADDAM, Byte Bandit was not destructive.
Byte Bandit made no attempt to disguise itself as modern viruses, trojans, and worms do.
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.