Populizer Family
Description Populizer Family
These are harmless memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the beginning of COM files that are executed. The viruses have bugs and may corrupt the files and halt the system. The viruses do not manifest themselves in any other way, they contain the text string:
COMPUTER_VIRUS_CLUB_'STEALTH'_KIEV._VIRUS_SMALL3._WRITTEN_BY_POPULIZER.
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Mecdon.1470
Description Mecdon.1470
This is a relatively harmless non-memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for EXE files in the current drive subdirectory tree, then writes itself to the end of the file. On Tuesdays, the virus displays the following message:
+---- Virus Warning : ----+
| I HATE mans who CAN`T do |
| anyfing USEFUL MallCDON`T |
| LET to do it for OTHERS. |
+--------------------------+
Mef.1481
Description Mef.1481
These are a harmless memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and writes themselves to the end of COM- and EXE-files that are executed or opened. The viruses check the file names and do not infect the files: AVG.*, ASTA*.*, STRO*.*, DPMI*.*, RTM.*, SCAN*.*.
The viruses use anti-debugger tricks, and under debugger they switch to search-and-infect routine that search for COM- and EXE-files in DOS or C:DOS directories, and infects them.
The virus contains the internal text strings:
*.exe *.com dos
AVG.ASTASTRODPMIRTM.SCAN
COMEXE
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