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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Devil's Dance │
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- Synonyms: Mexican virus
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- Date of Origin: December, 1989.
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- Place of Origin: Reported by Mau Fragoso of Mexico City.
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: Remains resident, infects COM files.
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- OnScreen Symptoms: After a warm reboot, you will see the message "DID YOU
- EVER DANCE WITH THE DEVIL IN THE WEAK MOONLIGHT? PRAY FOR YOUR DISKS!!
- The Joker" Also, after your first 2,000 keystrokes, screen colors will
- begin to change.
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: 941 bytes.
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- Nature of Damage: Corrupts data files, program or overlay files, affects
- system run-time operation, corrupts file linkage.
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- Detected by: Scanv52+.
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- Removed by: CleanUp, Scan/D, or delete infected files.
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- This virus will infect a file multiple times until the file becomes
- too large to fit in available memory. Once an infected program has been
- run, any subsequent warm boot (CTRL-ALT-DEL) will result in the message
- noted above.
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- The Devil's Dance virus is destructive.
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- * After the first 2,000 keystrokes, the virus starts changing the
- colors of text displayed on the monitor.
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- * After the first 5,000 keystrokes, the virus erases the first copy of
- the FAT. At this point, whenever the system is rebooted, it will
- display the message above, destroy the first copy of the FAT, then
- proceed with the boot process.
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