Virus Database

Twister.451

Description Twister.451

These are harmless memory resident parasitic stealth viruses (except "Twister.451", this is not stealth one). They hook INT 21h and writes themselves to the beginning of COM files that are executed. The viruses "Twister.1015,1767" infect COMMAND.COM file after infection of any another file. These viruses contain the text strings:
"Twister.451": Twister (c) 1992
"Twister.863": Twister (c) 1992
"Twister.1015": Twister (c) 1992 C:COMMAND.COM
"Twister.1767": Twister C:COMMAND.COM
We are demons to some, angels to others
So Farall So Good... So What?
Children of the Damned
Time heals all wounds

"Twister.1767" hooks INT 8, 09h, 10h, 1Ch, 2Fh as well as INT 21h. Some time after installation it "shakes" the screen. Some time after keyboard inactivity it "falls" the letters up on the screen.

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Macro.Word.Random

Description Macro.Word.Random

This is a harmless macro virus. It contains only one macro, but while infecting a document of the global macros area it copies this macro with a name that it random selected from ten variants:
AutoOpen, AutoClose, AutoNew, AutoExec, AutoExit, FileSaveAs, FileOpen, FileClose, autoOpen, FileExit
While infecting the virus displays a MessageBox with the selected name. The virus infects the files two and more times, as a result infected documents and templates may contain from one up to ten macros.

Macro.Word.Randomic

Description Macro.Word.Randomic

This Word macro virus contains only one macro with random selected name: <random letter><random number>. It infects the documents and NORMAL.DOT on keystroke that is assigned to this macros, this key is also pointed by document's variable "TKey".
The virus removes the Tools menu. On April 4th it displays the dialog and reboots the computer:
>> RANDOMIC << STRANGE LUCK >> RANDOMIC <<
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Your system is infected
with the RANDOMIC macro virus.
Immediately stop your work, or you will regret it.
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That's maybe your last chance!!!
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Nightmare Joker [SLAM]
1997

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