Vic Family
Description Vic Family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 8, 21h and write themselves to the end of .COM files that are executed or opened. The viruses run the system timer in back direction (they decrease corresponding counter on each INT 8 call).
"Vic.793" is a polymorphic virus. It contains the text string:
VZDY MAS O JEDEN VIRUS VIC, NEZ SI MYSLIS.
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Sampo
Description Sampo
This is a benign memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 9 and 13h and writes itself into the MBR of the hard drive and floppy boot sectors. It intercepts when Alt-Ctrl-Del are clicked on, emulates rebooting and stays memory resident. In some cases, it drops the "Telefonica.3700" boot virus. On November 30, it hooks INT 8 also, and displays the following message:
+--------------------------+
¦ S A M P O ¦
¦ "Project X" ¦
¦ Copyright (c)1991 by the ¦
¦ SAMPO X-Team. All rights ¦
¦ reserved. ¦
¦ University Of The East ¦
¦ Manila ¦
+--------------------------+
Sandy.1038
Description Sandy.1038
This is a very dangerous polymorphic parasitic virus. It writes itself to the end of EXE files. Before return to the host program it disinfects the host file.
This is a nonmemory resident virus, being executed it searches for EXE files of the subdirectory tree of the current drive, and infects them.
The 200th generation of the virus overwrites the files with a trojan program that displays the messages:
sandy beaches
bridges sinking into the sea
beautiful confusion
you're a fading memory
The virus also contains the text string:
*.EXE *
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