Maus.1888
Description Maus.1888
It is a very dangerous nonmemory resident virus. It searches for the COM and EXE files of the directories and writes itself to the beginning of COM, and to the end of EXE files. It also creates the file device driver and append the information about this driver into the CONFIG.SYS file. This driver being installed into the memory sometimes erases the keyboard buffer. In some cases the virus erases the disk sectors. It contains the text strings:
C: * NETWARE LMS MAUS MDB DOS BASE
*.exe *.com
C:CONFIG.SYS DEVICE =
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Sparkling.705
Description Sparkling.705
This is a relatively harmless, non-memory resident parasitic encrypted virus. It searches for .COM files, and writes itself to the end of the file. On the 13th of any month, it sets the system date to the 14th and displays the following message:
Goodday.. I am da Sparkling Cyanide fear,
however, no need to vir.. 'coz
I do NOT have a bomb like al those childish fears.
On da contrary.. I've set your date to tomorrow,
So all the other fears haven't got a chance..
Aren't you glad you ran me first?
SPARKLING CYANIDE (c) [VooDoo]
Sparse.3840.a
Description Sparse.3840.a
This is a harmless memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the beginning of .COM files that are executed. The major part of the virus (approximately 3K) contains only zero bytes that are never used. The part of actual virus code is divided by 3 areas which are 'sparsed' in the virus body.
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