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EXE_Bug.Hooker - Virus Details |
EXE_Bug.Hooker
Aliases:
Size: 512 KB
Frequency: 2
Characteristics:
- Infects MBR
- Infects diskette boot record
- Infects EXE files
- Memory resident
- Multipartite virus
- Contains encrypted text
- Does random, less obvious, damage over time
- Modifies CMOS
- Encrypted Text: "HOOKER". CMOS Modification:
CMOS is altered to indicate that no drive A: exists, to force the system
to boot from the hard drive. Random Damage: Trojanizes .EXE files
on the hard disk so that they overwrite the first track of the hard disk
when they are run. Trojanizes .EXE files on floppy disks by turning them
into EXE_Bug droppers. Trojanized .EXEs are overwritten and thus
destroyed.
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