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It is a dangerous memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 13h and infects
the MBR of the hard drive and boot sector of floppy disks. The virus
contains the text string:



>PUTRID<

Depending on its counter the virus also hooks INT 21h. While executing a
file the virus searches a disk boot sector image within this file – the
virus scans the file for the “MSDOS” string and checks boot stamp 55AAh. If
such data are found, the virus replaces them with its copy. As a result,
the virus converts disk formatting utilities to virus droppers – while
formatting a disk they will write to the disk boot sector the virus code
instead of original bootstrap routine.

Text added: 30.12.96/GV

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Class	Virus
Platform	Boot
Description	Technical Details It is a dangerous memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 13h and infects the MBR of the hard drive and boot sector of floppy disks. The virus contains the text string: >PUTRID< Depending on its counter the virus also hooks INT 21h. While executing a file the virus searches a disk boot sector image within this file – the virus scans the file for the “MSDOS” string and checks boot stamp 55AAh. If such data are found, the virus replaces them with its copy. As a result, the virus converts disk formatting utilities to virus droppers – while formatting a disk they will write to the disk boot sector the virus code instead of original bootstrap routine. `Text added: 30.12.96/GV`
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Virus.Boot.Putrid

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