ExeBug.Hooker
Description ExeBug.Hooker
This is a family of boot and multipartite stealth viruses. They hook INT 13h and write themselves to the MBR of the hard drive and boot sectors of the floppy disks. Multipartite viruses of that family overwrite the headers of EXE file with a virus dropper. Other viruses overwrite the EXE files with trojan programs that erase the hard drive sectors when infected files are executed.
It overwrites the EXE files with a trojan that contains the text string:
HOOKER
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Pirate
Description Pirate
It is not a dangerous memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 13h and infects the MBR of the hard drive and boot sector of floppy disks. Depending on its internal counter the virus decrypts and displays the message:
PIRATE!, you have a virus.
Pirate.1344
Description Pirate.1344
It is a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 9, 21h and writes itself to the end of .EXE files that are executed. It checks keyboard input and in some cases it erases the internal BIOS data at the addresses 0040:xxxx. This virus contains the text string:
Pirate
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