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- Article 21198 (6 more + 1 Marked to return)) in comp.sys.amiga:
- From: johnsen@daimi.dk (Henrik Johnsen)
- Subject: IRQ Virus -it's out!!!
- Keywords: Link Virus
- Message-ID: <1885@daimi.dk>
- Date: 28 Dec 88 16:45:05 GMT
- Reply-To: johnsen@daimi.dk (Henrik Johnsen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 22
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- A couple of weeks ago we received a disk from a member of the 68000 User
- Group in Denmark, with at least one virus on it. This was the IRQ Link Virus
- mentioned some time ago in this group. It is out and spreading, and we have
- currently no cure for it. Symptoms are a title bar with text:
-
- IRQ Presents another virus for the Amiga
-
- On closer examination several programs (not the bootblock, it's OK)
- were strange. BlitzFonts did not look like the original. We have used the
- old (Fish 26) UnHunk program on these, and the code hunk of NewZap was very
- small (<2kbytes), while the data hunk was large enough to contain the program
- proper. It seems that the virus installs itself as the code hunk, and puts the
- original program into a data hunk.
-
- As we are no Execbase, disassembly, etc. gurus, we have sent copies of the
- beast to Leonardo Fei (Guardian) and Steve Tibbet (VirusX) for examination.
-
- And, BTW, software piracy in Denmark is not that bad. Everything is
- available, if you want it, but we have not seen any BBS with significant
- numbers of pirated programs. Belgium, Holland, and Germany are noted for
- their crackers, and virus writers, IRQ is from Germany.
-
- Henrik Clausen, hrc@daimi.dk, Henrik Johnsen, johnsen@daimi.dk
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- End of article 21198 (of 21204)--what next? [npq]
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