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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AVCS.270.a
Description AVCS.270.a
This is a harmless, non-memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for COM files, then writes itself to the end of the file. The virus does not manifest itself, and it contains the text string:
Demovir for LamerZ [AVCS]
Avispa Family
Description Avispa Family
These are dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic viruses. They hook INT 13h, 21h and write themselves to the end of EXE-files that are executed. On reading from disk sectors these viruses, depending on the system timer substitute the data buffer by the string:
$$ Virus AVISPA $$ Republica Argentina$$ Elijah Baley $$ Noviembre 10 de
1993 $$ This program is not an old virus variant, and it was written in
Argentina by Elijah Baley. It uses polymorphic technics to avoid
conventional scanning. $$ MENEM: Libertador de torturadores y asesinos de
inocentes, que Dios se apiade de tu po
These viruses contain the internal text string also:
__ Virus Avispa - Buenos Aires - Noviembre 1993 __
"Avispa.2048.b" contains the list of files that are infected on virus installation:
c:dosxcopy.exe
c:dosmem.exe
c:dossetver.exe
c:dosemm386.exe
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