Monkey Family
Description Monkey Family
These are memory resident harmless viruses. They hook INT 13h and infect floppy Boot-sectors and hard drive MBR by the "Stoned" method. They encrypt the content of the original Boot and MBR sectors before saving on disk. These viruses also contain the encrypted word "Monkey".
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Clock
Description Clock
This is a dangerous virus which infects the Boot-sector on floppy disks during access to them and MBR of hard disk on a reboot from an infected floppy. Depending on its internal counter the infector reboots the computer, also changes the setup of the hard disk (not in the CMOS but in the memory of the hard disk controller when it is possible). "Clock" also hooks INT 8, 13h.
Clone Family
Description Clone Family
This is a harmless companion virus. It creates COM files with the same name as EXE file if found, and writes itself into this COM file.
This is a non-memory resident virus. It displays the following message (which is erased by spaces in the sample), and it contains the following internal texts:
Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.
[TrekWar] *.EXE COM
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