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Plagiarist.2014

Description Plagiarist.2014

It's a not dangerous memory resident multipartite virus. It infects boot sector of floppy and hard drives and writes itself at the end of COM-files (except COMMAND.COM) are executed. It hooks interrupt vectors INT 17h for trigger routine, INT 21h for COM-file infection, INT 28h for INT 21h interception, INT 08h, 13h for INT 28h interception. The trigger routine: this virus searches for text "Andy Warhol" in any text sent to printer and replaces it with "Ron English".

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Phantom.2201

Description Phantom.2201

It is a dangerous memory resident encrypted virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of .COM files that are opened or executed. It infects only the files that begin from JMP command. It creates the "bad" clusters in the FAT sectors, shifts and overturns the screen, displays the message:
HI ROOKIE! I`m a THESEASE! I live in YOUR computer - sorryall Thanks to
Brains in the Computer Siences!

The virus also appends to the end of .EXE, .DBF and .ARC files the texts:
The PHANTOM Was HERE - Sorry...
Copyright (c) PHANTOM -- This virus was designed in the HUNGARIAN VIRUS
DEVELOPING LABORATORY. (H.V.D.L.)v1

Phantom1

Description Phantom1

It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic virus. It hooks INT 1Ch, 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed or opened. If there is long period of keyboard inactivity this virus draws the picture of death's head with the text "PHANTOM 1" and displays the message:
Congradulations!!! Your computer is now infected with a high performance
PHANTOM virus! Coming soon: next virii based on the _C00LEST_ mutation
engine all over the world: the Advanced Polymorphic Engine! Enjoy this
intro! (C) 1994 by Dark Prince.

This virus has bugs. Sometimes it corrupts the files while infecting: the decryption routine cannot decrypt the virus body. While executing these files halt the system. Second, the video effect does not work under MS-Windows, Win95 and different memory managers.

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