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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Halloechen Virus │
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- Place of Origin: West Germany
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: COM and EXE files. Memory resident.
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- OnScreen Symptoms: keyboard input will appear garbled.
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: 2,011 bytes.
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- Detected by: Scanv57+.
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- Removed by: delete infected files or run Scan/D.
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- First reported by Christoff Fischer of the University of Karlsruhe,
- West Germany. It is now widespread in West Germany.
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- When an infected program is run, Halloechen installs in memory. From
- memory, it infects any EXE or COM which is run, providing the program is
- less than about 62K in size, and has a file date outside the current
- system date's month. During the infection, the file's size is increased
- to a multiple of 16, then the 2,011 bytes of virus code are added to it.
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