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- A new virus has been reported at a leading company in Atlanta. The
- virus contains the string 'Screaming Fist II', presumably this is
- the handle of the author (?). A 711 byte virus "Screaming Fist" was
- reported in Virus Bulletin March 1992, named 'SCREAMER'.
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- Symptoms are not yet completely known, but machine does hang.
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- VIRUS NAME: 'Screaming Fist II'
- TYPE: Variable Encrypted
- INFECTS: EXE, COM, including COMMAND.COM
- ORIGIN: Unknown
- COMMENTS: A sample arrived at Leprechaun Software's Labs yesterday
- and has been partially disassembled. The virus goes TSR and
- infects files as they are opened. COM infections always grow
- 693 bytes while EXE's grow 693 to 1172 bytes (seems like
- larger EXE's grow more, might be a trivial attempt to disguise
- infection's trail).
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- Last week we reported a new virus found in Atlanta. The virus contains
- the string "Screaming Fist II", presumably this is the handle of the
- author (?). A 711 byte virus "Screaming Fist" was also reported in Virus
- Bulletin March 1992, named "SCREAMER".
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- A third virus (or version?) of Screaming Fist II has been identified and
- is guaranteed to be in the wild. It appears to be a completely different
- virus with the same string embedded "Screaming Fist II". This newly
- discovered virus is Multi-Partite, meaning it infects "boot sectors" and
- "program files" (EXE, COMs, etc.).
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- Additionally, by observing the advanced programing techniques used
- in all three of these viruses, it appears they all may be a product of an
- underground hacker group. According to analysts at Leprechaun
- Software, the code seems to fit the concept of shared techniques.
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- Last week, a leading company reported finding 3 occurrences of the
- Michelangelo virus. Two infected machines were in different areas of
- the company. All machines were cleaned before March 6th this year.
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- VIRUS NAME: 'Michelangelo'
- TYPE: Common - Boot infector
- INFECTS: Partition Tables
- COMMENTS: You know the details.
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- Last week a major Atlanta corporation reported finding the 1575 virus.
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- VIRUS NAME: '1575 - Green Caterpillar'
- TYPE: Common Parasitic
- INFECTS: EXE, COM, including COMMAND.COM
- ORIGIN: Unknown
- COMMENTS: Hooks interrupt 21. Infected files grow 1,577 and 1,591
- bytes. There are at least 3 known variants.
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- The "FORM" virus is going to become more prevalent. A company reports
- today that it may have accidentally distributed a large number of
- diskettes to it's clients. Since the master disk is clean, the
- duplication service or the diskette provider probably passed it along.
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- We reported "FORM-18" in January of this year.
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- VIRUS NAME: "FORM"
- TYPE: Common - Boot infector
- INFECTS: Boot Sector
- COMMENTS: A clicking noise may be emitted from the system speaker on
- the 24th day of every month. Some systems will hang.
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