Win95.Rat family
Description Win95.Rat family
It is a family of nonmemory resident parasitic Windows viruses. The viruses of family are silly and have quite short size - up to one kilobyte. They are buggy and infected program in most of cases crash on start.
The "Rat.463" and "Rat.505" viruses while infecting a file overwrite the Fixup file section. The "Rat.886" virus appends its code to the end of last file section.
The viruses do not manifest themselves in any way, the "Rat.886" virus contains the text:
[Win95.TrendKiller]
[Rat Heart /ASM]
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EDS.692
Description EDS.692
It's a not dangerous not memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for .COM-files of the current directory and writes itself to their ends. Sometimes it displays the message:
Welcome in the EDS Virus Version 2.0
(c) 1992 The Ultimate Virus Creator
Copy me ! I want to travel !
Edv
Description Edv
It's a memory resident dangerous MBR and Boot-sectors infector. It copies the TSR part into UMB or the video memory and hooks INT 13h, 16h. It stores the source sector at address 1/39/8 (head/track/sector) on floppy and hard drives. During access to this sector the virus emulate the disk reading error. The 5th generation of this viruses erases the disk sectors and types: "That rings a bell,no ? from Cursy". This virus contains the text "MSDOS Vers. E.D.V. EV" also.
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