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It is a very dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h
and writes itself to the beginning of COM files that are executed. On the
11th of any month the virus erases the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and writes
into it the following commands:



@DEL *.COM

@DEL *.EXE

then it creates the file SOME of zero length. The virus contains the texts:



Something v1.1

some c:autoexec.bat @del *.com @del *.exe

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Class	Virus
Platform	DOS
Description	Technical Details It is a very dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the beginning of COM files that are executed. On the 11th of any month the virus erases the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and writes into it the following commands: @DEL .COM @DEL .EXE then it creates the file SOME of zero length. The virus contains the texts: Something v1.1 some c:autoexec.bat @del .com @del .exe
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Virus.DOS.Something

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