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- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 15:23:33 -0400
- From: padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson)
- Subject: AIRCOP alert (PC)
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- Recently, one of our users brought a laptop in for screening. The
- AIRCOP boot sector infector was found on two of the 3 1/2 utility
- disks furnished with the machine & we have reason to believe that
- the virus was on the disk prior to the utility files.
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- The disks are professionally labeled MS-DOS V4.01 utility/diag
- printed by CAF Computer Corp. under license from MircroSoft Corp.
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- The virus appears to conform to published reports and contains the
- "RED STATE" message in encrypted form. The virus also appears to
- expect 360k floppies since the location the original boot sector is
- stored in would be in the middle of any larger capacity disk.
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- Since the disk conforms to most Microsoft boot sector
- specifications, automatic routines may not pick it up however SCAN
- v66 and later will detect it as should any routine looking for
- memory size information manipulation.
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- The virus when active does not employ any stealth and will take 1k
- bytes from the top of memory. Infected disks may be identified by
- the lack of the normal error messages in the boot sector except for
- the ASCII "NON-SYSTEM" found at the end of the boot sector just
- prior to the MS signature.
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