Detect Date | 10/13/2004 |
Class | Virus |
Platform | Multi |
Description |
It is not a dangerous memory resident multipartite polymorphic and stealth virus. It infects COM, EXE files, the MBR of the hard drive and boot sector on floppy disks. When an infected file is executed, the virus infects the MBR and returns control to the host program. While loading from infected disk the virus hooks INT 13h, waits for DOS loading, then hooks INT 21h. By hooking INT 13h the virus infects floppy disk boot sector and run its stealth routine while accessing to the infected disks. By hooking INT 21h the virus also runs its stealth routine as well as affects DOS executable files that are accessed. The virus disables its stealth routines when PKZIP or BACKUP utilities are active. The virus also checks the file names and does not infect several anti-viruses and utilities according to the list:
Depending on the system date the virus runs some video effect. The virus contains the text strings:
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