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Champaigne family

Description Champaigne family

These are very dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for COM files, then write themselves to the end of the file. If a default drive is C: drive, the viruses erases the system sectors of C: drive and display:
Champaigne Livesall

The viruses also contain the string:
by KrACkBaBy

"Champaigne.706" does not erase disk sectors, but appends to the end of non-COM files the text:
Piggy Virus-v2.01.a by kRaCkBaBy...hE LiVES inSiDE mY mouTh, anD tELLz mE
whAt To sAY...whEn hE TUrNz tHA tRAiNz oN hE maKeZ iT gO aWaY...tHE HAnDz
aRe kRACkEd aND DiRtY ANd tHE nAiLz aRe BEeTLe WiNGs...anD tHERe iZ nO oNE
HerE tO sAVE oUrSeLf!!

This virus also writes to the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file the command:
@echo !OiNk OiNk OiNk...goEs tHA Piggy!

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Detic.1514

Description Detic.1514

This is a relatively harmless, memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h, and writes itself to the end of .COM- and .EXE-files that are executed, renamed or opened. After successful infecting of any file, the virus creates a C:(_FREE_D.) subdirectory, and tries to set the system date to March 23, 1977.
From the 13th until the 15th of any month, the virus also hooks INT 13h, and disables writing to the hard drive. On the 1st of any month, the virus outputs the word "zero" to the 9Bh port.
The virus contains the internal text strings:
[Friends] Virus V1.00
Virus Deticadet To My ExFriends.
Virus Written By [_Free_D.]
Made In ALBANIA.
C:COMMAND.COM
C:(_Free_D.)
IO

Devastator.174

Description Devastator.174

This is a dangerous non-memory resident encrypted virus. It contains the text string:
*.COM Devastator X
It is an overwriting virus. It searches for COM files and overwrites them.

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