Karol.1000
Description Karol.1000
It is a harmless memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of EXE files that are executed. While installing and infecting is uses several tricks with redirection of INT 1,8,9 (sets these INTs to subroutines of infection and calls them by INT instruction). The virus contains the text string:
KaRoLmArKs V2.3
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Shine.640
Description Shine.640
It is not a dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for EXE files and writes itself to the end of the file. It contains/displays the text strings:
Eternal love, is like heaven,
sometimes like eternal rain,
sadness, deep inside pain !
[Shine Away] .oO 1995 by CoKe Oo.
Made in Luxembourg 1995
Shiny Family
Description Shiny Family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 1, 3, 9, then they trace INT 21h and patch the first byte of DOS part of INT 21h handler with CCh opcode (INT 3 call). On execution of COM and EXE files thise viruses write themselves to the end of these files. Sometimes they change the letters on the screen:
from to
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These viruses contain the text:
Shiny Happy Virus by Hellraiser and Dark Angel of Phalcon/Skism
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