Farside family
Description Farside family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the beginning of .COM (except COMMAND.COM) and to the middle of .EXE files that are executed or opened. In some cases the viruses display the messages:
"Farside.3008":
For cryin'out loud! My circuits are haunted by the ghost of a porcupine. . .
"Farside.3012":
This program has been infected with a nondestructive virus !
For an antivirus call (034).32.09.87 (with CHRIS)
The viruses also contain the text string "COMMAND.COMCOMEXE" and:
"Farside.3008": FARSIDE virus 1.00 (C) Windom Earle ROMANIA
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Burger.1310
Description Burger.1310
This is a dangerous, non-memory resident parasitic overwriting virus. It writes itself to the beginning of COM files of the current drive.
The virus types:
Welcome to Twin Peaks..Your PC now has the Twin Peaks virus.
Burger.560.a
Description Burger.560.a
This is a dangerous, non-memory resident parasitic overwriting virus. It writes itself to the beginning of COM files of the current drive.
It can erase the sectors of disks with random numbers. Some of the viruses contain the string: "Function not supported by network'Required system component n".
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