Saratoga (Icelandic) Family
Description Saratoga (Icelandic) Family
These are dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of each second or tenth (depending on the virus version) .EXE file that is executed or loaded into the memory. After every successful infection of a file the viruses mark as BAD cluster one of free clusters of the current disk.
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Galicia.800
Description Galicia.800
This is relatively harmless, non-memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for COM files, then writes itself to the beginning of the file. In odd months (January, March, all), the virus drops the boot virus Galicia.a to the MBR of the hard drive.
The viruses contain the following text strings:
Galicia contra telefonica!
Galicia.800
Description Galicia.800
It's a not dangerous memory resident encrypted boot virus. On loading from infected disk it hooks INT 13h and infects MBR of hard drive and Boot-sectors of the floppies. On May, 22th at 12am it types the message: "Galicia contra telefonica!". It contains the ID-word "V1".
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