Laplata.1809
Description Laplata.1809
It is not a dangerous memory resident stealth parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed. The virus also infects files that are being searched. It deletes anti-virus file ANTI-VIR.DAT, if it exists.
On 18 November the virus several times displays a text message.
The virus contains the text strings:
Virus La Plata v 2.1 (c) 9/97 Mean Mr. Mustard
> 19 de Noviembre - Viva La Plata <
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Andromeda.1140
Description Andromeda.1140
It is a dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for .COM files (except COMMAND.COM) and writes itself to the beginning of the file. It contains the internal text strings:
-< The Andromeda Strain >- Version 1.00 By : Crypt Keeper
Mission Completeall Have fun with your virus(es)
ANDROM.SEC *.COM
RUNME.COM COMMAND.COM
SCAN.EXE CLEAN.EXE NAV.EXE NAV_._NO
The first and the second strings are displayed when the virus creates the file RUNME.COM and executes it, the last string contains the names of the files which are deleted by the virus when the virus is executed.
Andromeda.758
Description Andromeda.758
It's a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself at the end of .COM-files (except COMMAND.COM). It searches for the files for infection on execution of any program. On infection it uses FCB functions of file reading/writing. On October, 5th it erases the FAT of A: drive. It contains the internal text string "[ANDROMEDA V1.1] BUDAPEST HUNGARY".
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