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VIRUS CHARACTERISTICS LIST V56
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Copyright 1989, McAfee Associates
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408 988 3832
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The following list outlines the critical characteristics of the known
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IBM PC and compatible viruses.
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Infects Fixed Disk Partition Table-------------------+
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Infects Fixed Disk Boot Sector---------------------+ |
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Infects Floppy Diskette Boot --------------------+ | |
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Infects Overlay Files--------------------------+ | | |
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Infects EXE Files----------------------------+ | | | |
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Infects COM files--------------------------+ | | | | |
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Infects COMMAND.COM----------------------+ | | | | | |
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Virus Remains Resident-----------------+ | | | | | | |
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Virus Uses Self-Encryption-----------+ | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Increase in
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Virus Disinfector V V V V V V V V V V Damage
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Taiwan CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 708 p
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Chaos MDISK . x . . . . x x . N/A B,O,D,F
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Virus-90 CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 857 P
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Oropax CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 2773 P,O
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4096 CleanUp . x x x x x . . . 4096 D,O,P,L
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Devil's Dance CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 941 D,O,P,L
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Amstrad CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 847 P
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Payday CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1808 P
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Datacrime II-B CleanUp x . x x x . . . . 1917 P,F
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Sylvia/Holland CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 1332 p
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Do-Nothing CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 608 p
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Sunday CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1636 O,P
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Lisbon CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 648 P
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Typo/Fumble CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 867 O,P
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Dbase CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 1864 D,O,P
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Ghost Boot Version MDISK . x . . . . x x . N/A B,O
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Ghost COM Version CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 2351 B,P
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New Jerusalem CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1808 O,P
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Alabama CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 1560 O,P,L
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Yankee Doodle CleanUp . x . x x . . . . 2885 O,P
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2930 CleanUp . x . x x . . . . 2930 P
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Ashar CleanUp . x . . . . x . . N/A B
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AIDS CleanUp . . . x . . . . . Overwrites Program
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Disk Killer CleanUp . x . . . . x x . N/A B,O,P,D,F
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1536/Zero Bug CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 1536 O,P
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MIX1 CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 1618 O,P
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Dark Avenger CleanUp . x x x x x . . . 1800 O,P,L
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3551/Syslock CleanUp x . . x x . . . . 3551 P,D
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VACSINA CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1206 O,P
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Ohio MDISK . x . . . . x . . N/A B
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Typo (Boot Virus) MDISK . x . . . . x x . N/A O,B
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Swap/Israeli Boot MDISK . x . . . . x . . N/A B
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1514/Datacrime II CleanUp x . . x x . . . . 1514 P,F
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Icelandic II CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 661 O,P
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Pentagon MDISK . . . . . . x . . N/A B
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3066/Traceback M-3066 . x . x x . . . . 3066 P
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1168/Datacrime-B CleanUp x . . x . . . . . 1168 P,F
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Icelandic CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 642 O,P
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Saratoga CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 632 O,P
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405 CleanUp . . . x . . . . . Overwrites Program
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1704 Format CleanUp x x . x . . . . . 1704 O,P,F
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Fu Manchu CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 2086 O,P
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1280/Datacrime CleanUp x . . x . . . . . 1280 P,F
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1701/Cascade CleanUp x x . x . . . . . 1701 O,P
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1704/CASCADE-B CleanUp x x . x . . . . . 1704 O,P
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Stoned/Marijuana CleanUp . x . . . . x . x N/A O,B,L
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1704/CASCADE CleanUp x x . x . . . . . 1704 O,P
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Ping Pong-B CleanUp . x . . . . x x . N/A O,B
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Den Zuk MDISK . x . . . . x . . N/A O,B
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Ping Pong CleanUp . x . . . . x . . N/A O,B
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Vienna-B CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 648 P
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Lehigh CleanUp . x x . . . . . . Overwrites P,F
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Vienna/648 M-VIENNA . . . x . . . . . 648 P
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Jerusalem-B CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1808 O,P
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Yale/Alameda CleanUp . x . . . . x . . N/A B
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Friday 13th COM CleanUp . . . x . . . . . 512 P
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Jerusalem CleanUp . x . x x x . . . 1808 O,P
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SURIV03 CleanUp . x . x x x . . . O,P
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SURIV02 CleanUp . x . . x . . . . 1488 O,P
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SURIV01 CleanUp . x . x . . . . . 897 O,P
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Pakistani Brain CleanUp . x . . . . x . . N/A B
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Legend:
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Damage Fields - B - Corrupts or overwrites Boot Sector
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O - Affects system run-time operation
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P - Corrupts program or overlay files
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D - Corrupts data files
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F - Formats or erases all/part of disk
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L - Directly or indirectly corrupts file linkage
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Size Increase - The length, in bytes, by which an infected
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program or overlay file will increase
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Characteristics - x - Yes
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. - No
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Disinfectors - SCAN/D - VIRUSCAN with /D option
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SCAN/D/A - VIRUSCAN with /D and /A options
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MDISK/P - MDISK with "P" option
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All Others - The name of disinfecting program
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Note:
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The SCAN /D option will overwrite and then delete the
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entire infected program. The program must then be
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replaced from the original program diskette. If you wish
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to try and recover an infected program, then use the
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named disinfector if available.
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[3] Tfiles: (1-8,?,Q) : |