Vinnitsa Family
Description Vinnitsa Family
These are dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They trace and hook INT 21h, then they write themselves to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed. They corrupt .DBF files, depending on their internal counters they erase the disk sectors. They contain the text strings:
Vinnitsa 1992 year
Hacker all country, united!!!
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Ramesy.336
Description Ramesy.336
It is a dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for COM files, then writes itself to the beginning of the file. Because of error it corrupts COM files of small length. It contains the text string:
[RAMESY] Coaxial Karma/94 *.COM
Ramones.a
Description Ramones.a
It is a very dangerous memory resident multipartite virus. It hooks INT 13h and writes itself to the boot sectors of the floppy disks and to the MBR of the hard drive. The virus encrypts the original boot and MBR sectors before saving them on disk.
The virus also overwrites EXE files that are accessed. When such file is executed, the virus infects the MBR of the hard drive, displays the message and returns to DOS:
Incorrect DOS Version.
The virus also contains the text:
[RamonesMania] by Evil One.
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