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Virus.Boot.Cicada

Class Virus
Platform Boot
Description

Technical Details


It is a dangerous memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 13h and writes
itself into the MBR of hard drive and boot sectors of floppy disks. On July,
10th it erases the hard drive sectors and displays:



+———————————————————————-+
� +————–+�
� ______ ___ ___ �Golden Cicada ++
� ___ ___ _____ ___ ______ _____ ___ ___ � Virus! ��
� ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ________ � Version Pro. ��
� ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ �June 10, 1994.++
� ______ _____ ___ _______ _____ ___ ___ +————–+�
� �
� ______ ___ ___ �
� ___ ___ ___ _____ _____ ______ _____ ___ �
� ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ �
� ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ �
� ______ ___ _____ _______ _______ _______ ___ �
� �
�———————————————————————-�
� Something wonderful was happened! Your PC is now Stoned! And your �
� PC was out of order that all the doctor’s efforts were in vain! Ha! �
� Ha! Ha! Ha! Serve you right!! I dont’ want to damage your hard disk! �
� But…write some trash into your hard disk now!! Well! Beware of this�
� virus, don’t copy software without any payments! Okay! Goodbye!!…. �
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Golden Cicada Virus Version Pro.
(C) Copyright CVEX Corp.,1994.
All rights reserved.
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