the Amiga was a boot sector virus called SCA virus, which was detected in November 1987. By 1988, one sysop reportedly found that viruses infected 15% of...
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compatibles. Brain affects the PC by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked...
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Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington,...
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make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant until March 6, the birthday...
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security advisory organizations and anti-virus software developers compile and publish virus lists. When a new virus appears, the rush begins to identify...
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The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988...
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OneHalf (redirect from OneHalf (computer virus))
OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus (hybrid boot and file infector) discovered in October 1994. It is also known as Slovak Bomber, Freelove...
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abuse often occurs in the form of boot sector viruses. Since code in the boot sector is executed automatically, boot sectors have historically been a common...
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is a computer virus that was discovered to be spreading in Europe in 1997. It is a boot virus. Alcon is a standard boot sector virus that spreads via...
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Form was a boot sector virus isolated in Switzerland in the summer of 1990 which became very common worldwide. The origin of Form is widely listed as...
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Flash BIOS. BIOSes that can be successfully written to by the virus have critical boot-time codes replaced with junk. This routine only works on some...
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infecting both executable .COM-files and boot sectors. The virus was written up based on code from two different viruses. The code that is capable of infecting...
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public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after...
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stealth virus and is highly polymorphic, that affects master boot records, boot sectors of diskettes, files .COM and also .exe programs. The virus first...
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AntiCMOS (redirect from AntiCMOS.B (computer virus))
AntiCMOS is a boot virus. Its first discovery was at Lenart, Slovenia, which led to its alias of Lenart. It was isolated in Hong Kong several times at...
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2048 does contain a boot sector within it with a boot virus. If inserted into the boot sector, it would be a functioning boot virus (although it would...
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Elk Cloner (redirect from Elk Cloner (computer virus))
the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system using a technique now known as a boot sector virus. It was attached to a program being shared on a disk (usually a game)...
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problems (viruses in particular). This is possible because unlike other hard drive images (which may contain any data, et al.), pure boot images contain...
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Antivirus software (redirect from Anti-virus)
relatively infrequently. During this time, virus checkers essentially had to check executable files and the boot sectors of floppy disks and hard disks....
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Euthanasia. The virus was capable of infecting .COM and .EXE executable files, as well as the master boot record of hard disks and the boot sector on floppy...
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program; boot floppies have a very simple loader program in these bytes. The process is vulnerable to abuse; data floppies could have a virus written to...
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Lamer Exterminator (redirect from Lamer Exterminator (computer virus))
Exterminator is a computer virus created for the Amiga. It was first detected in Germany in October 1989. It is a boot block virus contained in the first...
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MSAV (redirect from Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows)
and Clean" strategy and the detection of boot sector and Trojan horse-type viruses (which were typical virus problems at that time). The program also...
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Barrotes (category DOS viruses)
variants of the virus appeared with more pronounced malicious effects, such as the Barrotes 1303 variant in 1996, which destroyed the boot sector of the...
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in 1988. November: The SCA virus, a boot sector virus for Amiga computers, appears. It immediately creates a pandemic virus-writer storm. A short time...
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ReBoot is a Canadian animated television series created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell, and John Grace, with the visuals designed by Brendan...
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how the virus works is dependent upon the origin of the virus (boot sector or program). When a contaminated program is executed, the virus resides in...
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hard disk. The Windows Registry is finally deleted and the boot options changed. The virus then reboots the computer, leaving the user facing the Linux...
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settings memory information, and boot sector of a hard disk of an MS-DOS computer system. This is very handy in case a virus that its definitions do not detect...
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