Virus Database

Cannibal.1312

Description Cannibal.1312

Cannibal.1312 is a dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 10h, 28h, 2Fh, 4Ah and on INT 10h, 28h calls infects the file which performs that call. On infection the virus writes itself at the end of the files. It contains the bug and corrupts .EXE-files on infection. It creates the file
C:VIRUS.$$$cannibal.max

and writes the text into it:
_______________________________________
MAX CANNIBAL vers.1.04
(c)93 PAVLOVO CITY
_______________________________________
"_" = non displayable character.

The virus displays that text on INT 4Ah calls. It also contains the internal text strings:
AIDS
Mad Max

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Taek

Description Taek

These are not dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses, "Taek.1846" is polymorphic one. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed or opened. "Taek.1965" while installing memory resident also searches for all EXE files in the current directory and infects them.
The viruses check the file names and do not infect the files COMMAND.COM, IO*.*, OS*.*, SC*.*, WI*.*. "Taek.1965" also does not infect F-*.* files.
Starting from 22:00 the viruses display the messages after infecting each file:
"Taek.1846":
Welcome to Scorpion Virus
Copyright (C)

"Taek.1956":
Red Scorpion
Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Taek Software.
Ver Red.1912

TaiPan.434

Description TaiPan.434

This is a harmless memory-resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of EXE files that are executed. It contains the text string:
CoSmO

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