Virus Database

Palm.Phage

Description Palm.Phage

This is the first known virus infecting PalmPilot applications. The virus has an "overwriting" infection mechanism, and affected applications do not work anymore.
The Pilot applications (.PRC files - "executable files" in DOS/Windows terms) are standard Pilot databases with a special "application" resource inside. When an application is run, the "application" resource is activated and performs its functions. There is a set of system "library routines" that the Pilot applications can use to access system resources and other database resources.
When the virus starts, it opens its own file and reads its DATA and CODE resources from there, then it simply searches for all other "application" databases in the system and overwrites their DATA and CODE resources with the virus'. The affected application then has virus DATA and CODE resources in it.

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Day24.792

Description Day24.792

This is a very dangerous non-memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for EXE files, then writes itself to the end of the file. On the 24th of even-numbered months (February, April, June, etc.)the virus erases the CMOS and the hard drive sectors.

DBCE.3403

Description DBCE.3403

DBCE.3403 is a not dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 8, 9, 21h and writes itself to the end of COM- (except COMMAND.COM) and EXE-files that are executed. On typing "virus" on the keyboard, the virus replaces it with "clankswerk", it also changes the "virus" string to "clank" on the screen. It contains the internal text strings:
COMMAND.COM
[DBCE]

and displays the messages:
Amidst Dale Beaudoin's
driveling
clank clunking crap
rubishy rubish
the following wisdom spews forth:
You have the Dale Beaudoin Clankswerks Engine by pseudoVirus writer Virotech!
This crude clankswerks was quickly and sloppily put together just like
Dale's Fido messages.
In my assesment there is ways and means to break new ground in the
computer sciences. virus not= virus. virus = clankswerks engine!
A "virus" or "trojan" that attempts to do a DIRECT WRITE bypassing the
operating system is not a virus. It is a mathclanking engine.
The clankswerks "appears" to have a measure of stealth by passing DOS but
the intent is more deliberate than stealthy. The "formula" or "equation"
is designed with a directive.
PseudoViruses deliberately mathclank other software programs. They are
not true viruses.
Computer "virus" (clankswerks) do not replicate, they iterate,
decrementally and incrementally through a math engine dependent on a
specific order of operations.
RPM is not software intergrated. IDE drives I have worked with often
have the platter scored after subject to a clankswerks. If the controller
would to do a seek in a tight loop the harmonics would be enough to allow
the heads to crash through the air-bearing.
The purity of the overall engine is mathclanked by the deliberate
alteration of one of the subsets. That alteration is dependent on the
works of an human idiot math-clanker. It is illegal and not natural.
Any so called virus that can take instrucution to lift attributes has to
be artificially intelligent.
If a pseudoVirus consults the COMSPEC to find the original copy of
COMMAND.COM, all you have to do is use debug and rename COMSPEC and
COMMAND.COM. Change the varialbe and tell your virus to decipher it! If
it does consult or decipher then it's AI, not virus.

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