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The Clouded Magpie (Abraxas sylvata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 30 and 38 mm found in the forest zone of the Palaearctic flying from May to August.
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The Magpie Moth (Abraxas grossulariata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 35 and 40 mm. Formerly an abundant species throughout the Palaearctic, by the end of the 20th century the Magpie moth had become rare. The moths fly from June to August.
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In Persian mythology, Abracax was the Supreme Being which presided over 365 impersonated virtues, one of which prevailed on each day of the year. The Greeks adopted Abracax as Abraxas.
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Abraxas was an ancient Greek word of power made into an amulet for protection against ills. The amulets, or talismans, were known as Abraxas Stones and were cut into symbolic forms combing a fowl's head, a serpent's body and human limbs and engraved with the name Abraxas.
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The Abraxas Virus is an encrypted computer virus which infects .COM and .EXE files including COMMAND. COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer' s runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
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The Alchemy Virus is an encrypted computer virus written by Abraxas using the PS-MPC virus generator. It infects .COM and .EXE files and upon activation appears to drop a copy of the Pakistani Brain virus onto the diskette boot sector. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program files.
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