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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Saratoga Virus │
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- Synonyms: 642, One in Two
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- Date of Origin: July, 1989
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- Place of Origin: Calfornia
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: Memory resident. Infects EXE files.
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: 642 bytes.
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- Detected by: Scanv56+, F-Prot, IBM Scan.
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- Removed by: CleanUp, Scan/D, F-Prot, or delete infected files.
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- Derived from: Icelandic II?
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- This virus appears to be derived from the Icelandic-II viruses.
- Modifications include:
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- * When Saratoga copies itself to memory, it modifies the memory block
- so that it appears to belong to the operating system, thus preventing
- reuse of the block.
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- * Like Icelandic-II, this virus can infect programs which have been
- marked Read-Only, though it does not restore the Read-Only attribute
- to the file afterwards.
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- Similar to the Icelandic-II virus, the Saratoga can infect programs
- even if the system has installed an anti-viral TSR which "hooks"
- interrupt 21, such as FluShot+.
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