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VIRUS CHARACTERISTICS LIST V91
Copyright 1989-1992 by McAfee Associates
All Rights Reserved.
TEL 1-(408) 988-3832
The following list outlines the major characteristics of the known
IBM PC and compatible virus strains identified by SCAN. The number
of known variants of each virus is also listed. This number is listed
in parenthesis beside the name of the strain. The total number of
known viruses is summed at the end of the list. The Clean-Up virus I.D.
code is included in brackets.
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A Infects Fixed Disk Partition Table-A-------------------+
9 Infects Fixed Disk Boot Sector-----9-----------------+ |
8 Infects Floppy Diskette Boot-------8---------------+ | |
7 Infects Overlay Files--------------7-------------+ | | |
6 Infects EXE Files------------------6-----------+ | | | |
5 Infects COM files------------------5---------+ | | | | |
4 Infects COMMAND.COM----------------4-------+ | | | | | |
3 Virus Installs Self in Memory------3-----+ | | | | | | |
2 Virus Uses Self-Encryption---------2---+ | | | | | | | |
1 Virus Uses STEALTH Techniques------1-+ | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Increase in
| | | | | | | | | | Infected
| | | | | | | | | | Program's
| | | | | | | | | | Size
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A |
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Virus Disinfector V V V V V V V V V V V Damage
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Parasite [Par] Clean-Up . . . . x . . . . . 1132 P O
[ read other notes included in this zip as the Author of parasite claims
this is a much more dangerous virus: P O F B ]
Size Increase:
N/A - Virus does not attach to files.
None - Virus does not change file size (attaches to tag end of file)
Overwrites - Virus overwrites beginning of file no file size change
All Others - The length in bytes by which a file will increase when infect
Damage Fields:
B - Corrupts or overwrites the boot sector
D - Corrupts data files
F - Formats or overwrites all/part of disk
L - Directly or indirectly corrupts file linkage
O - Affects system run-time operation
P - Corrupts program or overlay files
Characteristics:
x - Yes
. - No
Disinfectors:
Clean-Up - Clean-Up universal virus disinfector
SCAN /D - VIRUSCAN with /D option
SCAN /D /A - VIRUSCAN with /D and /A options
MDISK /P - MDISK with "P" option
All Others - The name of disinfecting program