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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Italian-B │
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- Synonyms: Bouncing Ball, Vera Cruz, Ping-Pong-B, Bouncing Dot.
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: Remains resident. Infects floppy and hard disk boot sectors.
- (The original infected only floppy disks).
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: n/a.
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- Nature of Damage: Affects system run-time operation. Corrupts program or
- overlay files.
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- Detected by: Scanv56+, F-Prot, IBM Scan, Pro-Scan.
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- Removed by: CleanUp, MDisk, F-Prot, or DOS SYS command.
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- Derived from: Italian.
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- This is a variation of Italian that is able to infect hard disks.
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- Some of the characteristics are:
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- * Fairly long time before activation (a number of minutes at least)
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- * It displays a ball character, not the Diamond Character
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- * Once activated, the ball bounces around the screen until the system
- is shut off.
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- * Formatted system & non-system disks are infected and have the one bad
- spot created by the virus.
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- * When a user attempts to format the hard disk, format scans the disk OK
- and then reports that track 0 is bad.
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- * Formatted system floppy disks tend to lock up the PC on boot, and warm
- reboot doesn't work.
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- * The main problem is re-infection and spreading to other machines.
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