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- BURGER VIRUSES
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- Several primitive viruses have emerged as a result of Ralf Burger's
- book "Das Grosse Computervirenbuch" which was first published in
- 1987 with an official English edition in 1988 and an (unofficial ?)
- Russian edition in 1990.
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- A virus called 405 has given rise to several variants.
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- 405 is an early primitive overwriting virus that infects COM files
- only. It is believed to have originated in Germany, influenced by
- Burger's book.
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- Some anti-virus scanners simply identify it as BURGER
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- It only infects files in the current directory and will continually
- reinfect the same file.
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- Some viruses called VIRDEM, also described in the book, have also
- appeared, see separate report.
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