HWF.893
Description HWF.893
These are not a dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for COM and EXE files in current and parent directories, then write themselves to the end of the file. If current day + 8 is equal to current months viruses halt the computer and displays the message:
HARDWARE FAILURE!
The viruses also contain the text strings:
"HWF.893":
HWF v1.00 - An Other German High-Tech Product - Jan. 1992
"HWF.910,941":
HWF v1.00 - An Other German High-Tech Product - Jan. 1992
Slightly polymorph!
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Manowar.592
Description Manowar.592
It's a dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. On execution it copies itself into the memory at the address 9000:0000 without altering of MCB list, it will halt computer. The virus hooks INT 21h and writes itself at the end of COM- and EXE-files are accessed. It contains the internal text strings:
MANOWAR
(C)PK
Mantra.719
Description Mantra.719
It is a very dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for .COM files, then writes itself to the end of the file. Depending on the system time the virus tries to erase the disk sectors and displays the message, but fails and halts PC. The message is:
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* VALENTINE *
* HAS ENTERED! *
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This is the VALENTINE virus, 1.0 by Black Mantra
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