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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Ming Family
Description Ming Family
These are benign non-memory resident parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files, and write themselves to the end of the file. In February, "Ming.491" displays the following message:
Nice To Meet You! Copyright(c) 1-11-1993 By Ming. From Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Version 3.00
"Ming.1017" contains the string:
Nice To Meet You! Copyright(c) 1-11-1993 By Ming. From Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Version 3.10
Mini.60.a
Description Mini.60.a
These are extremely primitive non memory resident harmless viruses. They write themselves to all .COM files of the current directory. The peculiarity of these viruses is their small length. All infectors contain the string "*.COM" or "*.com".
The length of files getting infection by "Mini.127.b" virus grows for 127+n bytes, where 'n' is the number of virus generation.
"Mini.132" contains the text "Foxy".
"Mini.200" contains the text "Tony".
"Mini.207" infects the files that have a block of 207 zero bytes. The virus inserts into this "zero" block, the length if the file does not grow.
"Mini.233" on Friday, 13th decrypts and displays the string:
VirX 3/90
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