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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Ohio │
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- Date of Origin: May, 1989.
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- Place of Origin: First reported at Ohio State University. May have
- originated in Indonesia.
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: Remains resident. Infects 360K floppy boot sector.
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: n/a.
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- Nature of Damage: Corrupts or overwrites boot sector.
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- Detected by: Scanv56+, F-Prot, IBM Scan, Pro-Scan.
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- Removed by: MDisk, F-Prot, or DOS SYS command.
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- Derived from: May be an original. Den Zuk may have been derived from it.
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- Scan Code: see below.
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- The Ohio virus is a boot sector virus first discovered at Ohio State
- University by Terry Reeves in May, 1989. It only infects 360K floppies.
- It will infect any new diskette as soon as the diskette is accessed
- (COPY, DIR, DEL, program load, etc.), similar to the Brain. The virus
- will freeze the system if a <<Ctrl>><<Alt>><<Del>> is pressed and a cold
- boot is then required. When the virus activates, the first copy of the
- FAT becomes corrupted. No other symptoms have been reported.
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- The Ohio virus is similar in many respects to the Den Zuk virus, and
- may be an early version of Den Zuk. A diskette infected with Ohio will be
- immune to infection by the Pakistani Brain virus.
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- The following text strings appear in the Ohio virus:
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- V I R U S
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- b y
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- The Hackers
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- Y C 1 E R P
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- D E N Z U K 0
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- Bandung 40254
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- Indonesia
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- (C) 1988, The Hackers Team....
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