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Virus Listing EXE_Bug.A - Virus Details


EXE_Bug.A

Aliases: CMOS Killer
Size: 512 KB
Frequency: 15

Characteristics:
  • Infects MBR
  • Infects diskette boot record
  • Infects EXE files
  • Memory resident
  • Multipartite virus
  • Does random, less obvious, damage over time
  • Modifies CMOS
Information:
    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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