Joke.Win16.Aloap
Description Joke.Win16.Aloap
This is a joke program, not virus or trojan, but its manifestation is trojan-like and can fright a user. When run it randomly moves all applications' windows on the screen ("shakes" all windows, active window and background one).
The joke program itself has hidden (not visible) window and to terminate it the TaskList should be used.
In case the joke program is started twice, it reports:
Aloap
Aloap App Already Running
[ OK ]
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Mal family
Description Mal family
These are a very dangerous nonmemory resident overwriting viruses. They search for .EXE files in current and parent directories and overwrite them. The viruses then search for *.INI files in the WINDOWS directory and also overwrite them. They contain the text string:
*.EXE *.INI WINDOWS
Malaga.2385
Description Malaga.2385
This is a harmless memory resident multipartite virus. It hooks INT 8, 13h, 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files except COMMAND.COM. The virus also infects boot sector on floppy disks as well as on C: drive. The virus writes the original boot sector and the rest of virus code to the last sectors of the drive.
The virus decrypts and displays the texts:
HB=ETA=ASESINOS
PENA DE MUERTE AL TERRORISMOKI
VIVA ESPA
It also contains the text:
*.EXE *.COM COMMAND.COM
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