Virus Database

HoChiMinh

Description HoChiMinh

It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files. Three hours after installing into the memory the virus displays the message:
This playgame was writen by Nguyen The Quang, Nacentra Co.
101 - Hai Ba Trung, St.1 - Ho Chi Minh City, Phone: 96282
Press any key to Continue!

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Ghost_2.5000

Description Ghost_2.5000

This is a very dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic stealth-virus. It hooks INT 21h and 25h, and writes itself to the beginning of COM- and EXE-files that are executed, opened or closed. If the resulting COM-file length is out of segment (64K), the virus converts the file to EXE format.
While installing its TSR copy, if there is no free system memory, the virus displays the following message, and exits to DOS:
Swap file creation error at 0FAD:2DEC.
Program aborted.

The virus contains code that overwrites .PAS- and .CPP-files with the following text:
There is nothing in the world that I ever wanted more than to never feel
breaking apart all my programs again. The spiderman is always hungry

but this code is never executed.
In January, the virus corrupts the data on the hard drive, and then displays the following message (there may be any random digit instead of "000000000"), and "drops snow" on the screen:
Happy New Year !
Ghost 1.0 is terminating its work now. Please waitall
Write down this number : 0000000000 and pray for your data rescue.

The virus also contains the internal text strings:
COMMAND.COM
.COM.EXE.PAS.CPP
I feel so tired.
The way the rain comes down how it`s how I feel inside.
I`ve been living so long with my pictures of you
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain

Ghostball.2351.a

Description Ghostball.2351.a

It is a not dangerous not memory resident virus which by standard way hits .COM-files of current directory and directories listed in PATH. It writes a small program into Boot-sectors of disks. This program hooks INT 8 and starts to run a ball (see "Ping-Pong" virus) but doesn't infect any files or sectors. This virus contains the text "GhostBalls, Product of Iceland Copyright (c) 1989, 4418 and 5F19".

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