Terminator.3490
Description Terminator.3490
It's a dangerous memory resident multipartite encrypted virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself at the end of COM- (except COMMAND.COM) and EXE-files are accessed. Sometimes it fills the disk sectors by string "TERMINATED".
It tries to infect disk boot-sectors, but it contains error and fails. This virus contains the internal text strings:
THE TERMINATOR
TERMINATED
COMMAND.COM
Non-system disk or disk error
Replace and strike any key when ready
Disk boot failure
The TERMINATOR -- Boot virus version.
Released 15 May 5-15-91, 7.15 pm
.COM .EXE
The TERMINATOR -- Full virus version.
Released 15 May 5-15-91, 7.15 pm
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CopCom.285
Description CopCom.285
These are dangerous not memory resident overwriting viruses. They search for .COM-files and overwrite them. They call INT 24h on searching, it causes standard DOS error message:
General Failure error reading drive ?:
Abort? Retry? Ignore?
These viruses display the message:
Program halted by Cop-Com
Unauthorized program on your system
Consult Local dealer for support
They contain the internal text strings also:
(C) Business Software Alliance
C:COMMAND.COM
*.COM
CopyProtected.512
Description CopyProtected.512
It's a dangerous not memory resident overwriting virus. It searches for .COM- and EXE-files and writes itself at their beginnings. It saves original beginning of the file at the file end, it overwrites the file end by data is saved. As the result the infected files are corrupted and should be deleted. The infection is processed by using absolute reading/writing INT 25h and INT 26h. On execution on write-protected disk this virus displays the message:
This program is COPY PROTECTED !
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