Joe Family
Description Joe Family
These are nonmemory resident parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files and write themselves to the end of the file. They are related to the "Grog" viruses.
Joe.589
It is a harmless virus. While infecting it uses System File Tables. It contains the text strings:
Joe Anthro (C) '93 by GROG - Italy
Joe Anthro era un'autorita' sulla cultura egiziana e babilonese.
Il suo massimo risultato, tuttavia, era la sua famosa opera sulla
suinicultura.
Joe.1089
It is a dangerous polymorphic virus. If the length of the file that is infecting is lesser than 4 bytes, this virus overwrites it with the text:
+-[Grog]-¦
L'inverno era gia' tornato un'altra volta ed era tempo per Joe l'Esquimese
di ritirare le sue mucche polari.
Mentre usciva a cavallo dalla stalla, cominciavano a cadere i primi fiocchi
di neve.
Egli alzo' gli occhi al cielo grigio ardesia e rabbrividi'.
Ben presto fu una tormenta. Un vento ululante sbatteva la neve attraverso
la prateria desolata.
Joe l'Esquimese si piego' in avanti sulla sella e sollecito' la sua
cavalcatura a procedere fra i turbini di neve e l'urlo del vento.
This virus also contains the text strings:
*.?om
_/^\_ JoeLEsquimese (C) '93 by GROG - Italy _/^\_
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Dashel.1804
Description Dashel.1804
It's a not memory resident dangerous parasitic virus. It searches for .EXE-files and writes itself to their ends. It searches for C:DASHEL file and if this file is present, the virus erases the disk sectors. It also erases the sectors in several other cases.
Datacrime.1168.a
Description Datacrime.1168.a
This is a very dangerous nonresident virus. As an infected file is executed, it infects by standard way not more than one COM file in all current directories of all available disks though it does not infect COMMAND.COM. Depending on the timer and its own internal counters, the virus displays the text:
DATACRIME VIRUS RELEASED: 1 MARCH 1989
After that it makes an attempt to format some tracks of the hard disk.
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