UKTC.769
Description UKTC.769
It is a very dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and when any .COM file is executed, the virus infects that file and then searches for other .COM files in the current directory and infects them. The virus writes itself to the end of the files and does not infect the COMMAND.COM file. Depending on its generation the virus searches for all files in the current directory and deletes them. The virus contains the text string:
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Rom Family
Description Rom Family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of COM files that are executed. While installing they display:
"Rom.331": Drive Not Ready.
"Rom.397": ROM BIOS not compatible.
and return to DOS without execution of the host program. While infecting "Rom.397" renames the infected file to "WHY_ME", infects it and then renames back to original name.
Romania.856
Description Romania.856
It is a harmless memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 13h, 28h and on INT 28h calls searches for .COM files except COMMAND.COM and writes itself to the end of the file. The virus contains the text strings:
COMMAND
ROMANIA
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