Exorcist Family
Description Exorcist Family
Exorcist.212
It is a very dangerous nonmemory resident overwriting virus. It searches for .COM files, then overwrites them, and displays the message:
Bad command or file name
then returns to DOS. On 1st of any month the virus erases sectors on the C: drive. The virus also contains the text strings:
[RED MEASLES]
Exorcist[DC]*.com
Exorcist.613,617
These are very dangerous nonmemory resident partly encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for COM files, then write themselves to the end of the file. Depending on the system date they erase disk sectors and display the message:
Relapse The Cronic Odium
The viruses also contain the text strings:
[ODIUM RELAPSE]
*.com .. [Exorcist!dc^96]
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No444.474
Description No444.474
It is a harmless dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h, 2Fh and writes itself to the end of .COM files that are executed. The virus contains a code that erases the MBR of the hard drive, but this code is never executed. The virus contains the text:
* SCHOOL No.444,MOSCOW *
Nobock.440.a
Description Nobock.440.a
It is a dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for .COM files of the subdirectory tree of the current drive, then writes itself to the end of the file. Sometimes it displays:
No Bock today Error, System halted!
and really halts the system.
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