VCS Family
Description VCS Family
These are dangerous, non-memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files in the subdirectory tree of the current drive, and write themselves to the end of the file. These viruses contain the following text:
c:autoexec.bat c:config.sys
and overwrite the files C:AUTOEXEC.BAT and C:CONFIG.SYS with the following text:
"VCS.Manta":
RAM Parity Error at 0F67:1B2C
(C)ontinue (S)hut off NMI (R)eboot
Mantafahrer hält an einer Ampel. Neben ihm hält ein Porsche. Beide kurbeln
die Scheiben runter und der Porschefahrer fragt:
"Was hat vier Beine und ist unheimlich blöd ?"
Mantafahrer: "Keine Ahnung"
Porschefahrer: "Du und deine Freundin"
An der nächsten Ampel haelt ein Golf neben dem Manta.
Mantafahrer: "Was hat vier Beine und ist unheimlich doof ?"
Golffahrer: "Keine Ahnung"
Mantafahrer: "Meine Freundin und ich"
"VCS.Ruf" (it displays this message also):
__________
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________ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
__________ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____
__________ _ _ ____ _ ____ ____ ____ _ _
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Deutsche Bundespost _____ _ _ _ _ _ _____ _
_ _ ____ _ ____ _ __
Telekom _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _
"VCS.Paranoimia" (it also displays this message):
You have just been infected with the Paranoimia Virus!!!
If you have gotten this, then the odds are that you pirated
software you shouldn't haveall
Might as well press < Ctrl >-< Alt >-< Del > now...
"VCS.Manta" also displays:
RAM Parity Error at 0F67:1B2C
(C)ontinue (S)hut off NMI (R)eboot
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Mao.1000
Description Mao.1000
This is a harmless virus. It hooks INT 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM files that are executed. It does not run itself in any way.
Mao.1465
Description Mao.1465
This is a benign memory resident parasitic partly encrypted virus. It hooks INT 1Ch and 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. The virus also infects files upon the summoning of DOS functions FindFirst/Next FCB (DIR command). On September 9th (the day of Mao Tse Tung's death), and on December 26th (his birthday), the virus plays two Chinese tunes.
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