Virus Database

Fish.b

Description Fish.b

This is a harmless memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 13h and writes itself to the MBR of the hard drive and boot sector of floppy disks. It contains the text strings:
Paskuda 1,Copyright in 1996 by .
Greetings for Troja !!! She is pretty cool !!!

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Macro.Word.Boom

Description Macro.Word.Boom

This virus is encrypted, it contains four macros: AutoOpen, DateiSpeichernUnter, System, AutoExec. It infects the system on opening an infected file (AutoOpen) and documents that are saved by FileSaveAs (DateiSpeichernUnter).
On MS Word startup (AutoExec) the virus sets the System macro as triggered at 13:13:13. At this time MS Word calls this macro and the virus runs its trigger routine. It renames the menus:
Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht Einfügen Format Extras Tabelle Fenster

to
Mr. Boombastic and Sir WIXALOT are watching you ! !

The virus then prints the string:
Mr. Boombastic and Sir WIXALOT : Don`t Panik,
all things are removeable !!! Thanks VIRUSEX !!!

then creates new template and writes the text to there:
Greetings from Mr. Boombastic and Sir WIXALOT !!!
Oskar L., wir kriegen dich !!!
Dies ist eine Initiative des Institutes zur Vermeidung und Verbreitung von
Peinlichkeiten, durch in der Öffentlichkeit stehende Personen, unter der
Schirmherrschaft von Rudi S. !

The virus also contains the strings:
Mr. Boombastic and Sir WIXALOT !!!

Macro.Word.Epidem.a

Description Macro.Word.Epidem.a

This is a family of Chinese Word macro-viruses. They contain two macros: AutoExec and AutoOpen. They replicate themselves upon document opening (AutoOpen).
On October 10th, this virus erases the files: "C:IO.SYS", "C:MSDOS.SYS", and "C:COMMAND.COM". On June 17th, it drops a C:MOUSE.COM file infected with the "Natas.4746" multipartite virus, and adds the command to run this file in AUTOEXEC.BAT. On April 27, the virus writes the command to format the hard drive to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
echo y | format c:/u/V:EPIDEMIC >nul

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