Paradise.1400
Description Paradise.1400
It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic virus. It traces and hooks INT 21h, then it writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed. While infecting the virus converts the EXE files to COM format. On July, 17th the virus displays one of the messages:
LOST PARADISE
GOTHIC
SHADES OF GOD
ICON
The virus also contains the text strings:
PANTERA
PARADISE LOST
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Penza Family
Description Penza Family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They trace and hook INT 21h, then they write themselves to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. While infecting "Penza.700" converts the EXE files to COM format (see the "VACSINA" family). If an error appears while infecting, "Penza.1210" displays the message:
Best wished from Penza!
Pepper Family
Description Pepper Family
These are not dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files and write themselves to the end of the file. Depending on the system timer they set the system date to previous day number and display:
"Pepper.529": GOL Strikes again!
"Pepper.529": yesterday once more
They also contain the text strings:
*.COM [pepper]
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