Sterculius Family
Description Sterculius Family
These are harmless memory resident parasitic viruses. They copy themselves into Interrupt Vectors Table and hook INT 21h. Then these viruses write themselves to the end the files that are executed or loaded as overlay. "Sterculius.280" infects only COM files, other "Sterculius" viruses infect both COM and EXE files. These viruses contain the strings:
"Sterculius.266": <!>
"Sterculius.273": <ARCLIGHT>
"Sterculius.240,280": STERCULIUS
"Sterculius.428,440,456,458,474": STERCULIUS ][
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Girls.1829
Description Girls.1829
It's a not dangerous not memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for .COM- and .EXE-files and writes itself to their ends. Depending on the system date it displays the message:
I love you, girls ! You are so beautiful !
then it hooks INT 1Ch and plays the tune.
Gisela.702
Description Gisela.702
It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM files that are executed. While installing memory resident the virus also infects the C:COMMAND.COM file. On January 21th the virus decrypts and displays the message:
Virus GISELA 2.0 By EJECUTOR (Hecho en Argentina)
Feliz cumpleaños Gisela.
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