Major Family
Description Major Family
These are dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They hook INT 8, 21h and write themselves to the end of EXE-files that are executed. At random selected moment these viruses open the BBS-files:
"Major.1644": BBSV6BBSAUDIT.DAT, BBSV6BBSUSR.DAT
"Major.1691": C:BBSV6BBSAUDIT.DAT, C:BBSV6BBSUSR.DAT
and check them for presence of the names:
"Major.1644" Puppet Image Gnat Minion Cindy F'nor
"Major.1691": Puppet Image Gnat Santa Minion Cindy Herman
If any of these strings is found, the viruses change in some way the contents of BBS-files.
The viruses also contain the text strings:
"Major.1644": The Major BBS Virus created by Major tomTugger
"Major.1691" The Major Virus created by Weed and dedicated
to the Quantum BBS in Calgary, AB
Check other viruses! Be aware! Use Antiviral Software
Search.360
Description Search.360
This is nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for COM files and writes itself to the end of the file. It contains the string:
"SATYRICON"
Search.413
Description Search.413
This is nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for COM files and writes itself to the end of the file. Since 1993 it erases the disk sectors.
It contains the text:
And one more thingall fuck you!
|