Virus Database

Opic family

Description Opic family

These are not dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for EXE files in current and parent directories, then write themselves to the end of the file. "Opic.745" infects files on C: drive only.
Depending on the system date and time the viruses beeps by the PC speaker. The "Opic.727" virus then creates two subdirectories: "Odessa!" and "Opic" and writes to the end of CONFIG.SYS file the text:
REM-Odessa Virus (c) Opic [CodeBreakers 98]

The "Opic.745" virus also contains the text:
Odessa.B (c) Opic [Codebreakers 1998]

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Radyum.448

Description Radyum.448

These are harmless nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files and write themselves to the end of the file. They contain the text strings:
radyum, the attitude adjuster, brought to you by ViRuLeNT GRaFFiTi
*.COM

"Radium.503,509" contains the string:
lythyum, the attitude adjuster, ViRuLeNT GRaFFiTi

Some of "Radium" create HELLO.RAD ot LITHIUM.HI! files and write into it the messages:
"Radium.698":
radyum-b, by the attitude adjuster,
brought to you by ViRuLeNT GRaFFiTi
07/31/92 Greets to Gary Watson!
look for us again in the future.

"Radium.707":
radyum, version 2, by the attitude adjuster,
brought to you by ViRuLeNT GRaFFiTi
07/31/92 Greets to Gary Watson!
look for us again in the future.

"Radium.860":
radyum-c, by the attitude adjuster,
brought to you by ViRuLeNT GRaFFiTi
08/18/92
6 out of 16 bytes will keep the same
position and value, not too bad in my
book! greets to patti hoffman, i love you!

"Radium.1072" leaves the memory resident program which hooks INT 8 (timer) and displays the messages:
Unsuspecting user, 12 o'clock!
Get readyall 'cause... THERE'S A VIRUS IN YOUR SOUP!
From the guys that brought you Lythyum, Radyum, and VioLite comes
The Soupy Virus, (k) 1992 VG Enterprises, 216/513/602/914/703
By The Attitude Adjuster & AccuPunk!
Hurry! Hire an Anti-Virus Professional! Increase Wallet Space!
...hmmm, ya' know, I think I'll halt now...
[Soupy]
The Attitude Adjuster & AccuPunk, VG
08/23/92 to 12/02/92
Bad command or file name

Rael.3211

Description Rael.3211

This is a dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic virus. It hooks INT 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM files (except COMMAND.COM) that are executed or opened. It also infects files when searching DOS functions FindFirst/Next ASCII.
The virus contains the text strings:
c:dossys.com
c:dosdosshell.com
c:dosformat.com
c:doskeyb.com

and infects these files when an infected file is executed. Depending on the system timer, this virus infects the files with a Trojan program that erases the disk sectors being executed.
On the 14th of every month, it deletes files after infection, and starting from 12:00, it displays the following message:
___ __ ___ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
___ ____ ___ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ ___ ____
IMPERIAL AEROSOL KID
V 01/NOV/93 por RAEL

It also contains the text strings:
com
COMMAND
command
RAEL-IMPERIAL AEROSOL KID VIRUS III
-Buenos Aires-Argentina-
allRael, Imperial Aerosol Kid-exits in the daylight, spraygun head...
- SaTaNiC BRaIn B.B.S. 383-7480 Las 24 Horas -

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