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Metallica.1129

Description Metallica.1129

This is a harmless memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and infects COM and EXE files. On April, 22th (Vladimir Lenin birthday) it jokes with the screen - it writes random data to the video ports, and the screen starts to twitch and grimace. Under the Windows the screen do not twitch but the vertical and horizontal borders of active window are changed every second.
This infector contains the texts:
"Metallica.1103": Metallica Ver 2.2 AIDSCOMMAND
"Metallica.1129": Metallica Ver 2.0 AIDSCOMMAND
(c) USSR Moscow 92`

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Macro.Word.Epidem.a

Description Macro.Word.Epidem.a

This is a family of Chinese Word macro-viruses. They contain two macros: AutoExec and AutoOpen. They replicate themselves upon document opening (AutoOpen).
On October 10th, this virus erases the files: "C:IO.SYS", "C:MSDOS.SYS", and "C:COMMAND.COM". On June 17th, it drops a C:MOUSE.COM file infected with the "Natas.4746" multipartite virus, and adds the command to run this file in AUTOEXEC.BAT. On April 27, the virus writes the command to format the hard drive to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
echo y | format c:/u/V:EPIDEMIC >nul

Macro.Word.Epidem.b

Description Macro.Word.Epidem.b

This is a family of Chinese Word macro-viruses. They contain two macros: AutoExec and AutoOpen. They replicate themselves upon document opening (AutoOpen).
On June 17, this virus drops and runs the PH33R.COM file infected with the Windows virus, "Ph33r".

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