KSV Family
Description KSV Family
These are dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of EXE files that are executed. They contain lot of errors, and infected files often halt the system. The viruses contain/display the text strings:
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¦ KSV Aids ¦
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Sterculius Family
Description Sterculius Family
These are harmless memory resident parasitic viruses. They copy themselves into Interrupt Vectors Table and hook INT 21h. Then these viruses write themselves to the end the files that are executed or loaded as overlay. "Sterculius.280" infects only COM files, other "Sterculius" viruses infect both COM and EXE files. These viruses contain the strings:
"Sterculius.266": <!>
"Sterculius.273": <ARCLIGHT>
"Sterculius.240,280": STERCULIUS
"Sterculius.428,440,456,458,474": STERCULIUS ][
Steryd.399
Description Steryd.399
It is not a dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for COM files and writes itself to the beginnings of the file. On December, 24th it decrypts and displays the message:
Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku zyczy STERYD.
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