Virus Database

Goga.1660

Description Goga.1660

It's a not memory resident dangerous virus. On execution it searches all the subdirectories of the current drive for COM- and EXE-files and writes itself to their ends. It there are *.DBF, *.PRG, *.FOX, *.KAR files, the virus encrypts their contents. On every execution this infector increases the counter which is saved in the MBR of hard drive. Depending on the value of that counter the virus reboots the computer. It also contains the internal text string "Goga".

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Dark.1016

Description Dark.1016

These are very dangerous non-memory resident parasitic viruses. They search for COM (except COMMAND.COM) and EXE files, then write themselves to the end of the file. On Mondays, if it is the 16th day of the month, the viruses overwrite the boot sector of the current drive with a Trojan program that reboots a computer when executed; then the viruses display the following message:
Welcome to the Dark Apocalypseall Your computer will
never escape... You might as well read this and weep!
The Dark Apocalypse v1.00 by Crypt Keeper [RoT]
TTReign of TerrorTT [DARK APOCALYPSE]
Press any key to continue...

and print the screen by a INT 5 call, and reboot a computer. These viruses also contain the text strings:
COMMAND.COM *.EXE *.COM

DarkElf (boot)

Description DarkElf (boot)

It is a dangerous memory resident stealth boot virus. It hooks INT 3, 8, 13h and writes itself to the boot sectors of the floppy disks that are accessed. While infecting a disk the virus stores its second sector and original boot sector to the FAT sectors, and infects correctly 360K floppy disks only. While installing memory resident, if the virus cannot locate the original boot sector, it formats the disk sectors, then display and prints the message:
The Dark Elf strikes again!

It also contains the text strings:
V.I.R.U.S. Rules!
DARKELFv0.1

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