MtE.Pogue
Description MtE.Pogue
This is the first known real polymorphic virus. It is harmless and memory resident. It hooks INT 1Ch and 21h, and appends to COM files when they are started or closed. It plays a tune from time to time, and contains the following texts:
TNX2DAV
Pogue Mahone!
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Rasputin
Description Rasputin
It is not a dangerous memory resident stealth boot virus. It is encrypted in sectors and well as in the system memory. It hooks INT 13h and writes itself to the MBR of the hard drive and the boot sector of the floppy disks. Location on a disk is in free clusters which virus marks as BAD (pseudo-bad clusters).
While loading at 4am the virus decrypts and runs a video-effect and displays the text:
RASPUTIN
Coded By
Blue Skull
Rat.615
Description Rat.615
It is a harmless nonmemory resident parasitic infector. It searches for the .COM files of the current directory and writes itself to the end of the file. It contains the text strings:
Techno-Rat I. Copyright by Lord Blaise, Odessa 1991.
*.* *.COM .*.COM COM
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