Chaos Family
Description Chaos Family
These are dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of .COM- and .EXE-files that are executed. "Chaos.1181" also hooks INT 9, 13h. They erase disk sectors and display:
"Chaos.1181": CHAOS!!! Another Masterpiece of Faustall
"Chaos.1241": I see, I come, I conquer... Trojan horse-CHAOS v2.0 by Faust
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Gollum.664
Description Gollum.664
It's a not dangerous not memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for COM-files (except COMMAND.COM) and writes itself to their ends. Depending on the system timer it decrypts and displays the message:
Nasssty little Hobbitssses!
We hatesss them!
We hatesss them all!
It contains the internal text strings also:
Gollum v1.00, by Thanatos
COMMAND.COM
Gondor.3072
Description Gondor.3072
It is a not dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 12h, 21h and on DOS calls FindFirst ASCII it searches for EXE-files and writes itself to their ends. It deletes the CHKLIST files. Depending on the system date and time it disables several DOS functions such as file deleting and creating, changing the directory and so on. On June, 9th it displays:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ,HONEY.
It contains other internal text strings:
GONDOR=WARRIOR
*.exe .EXE
chklist?.???
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