| Alias: | --- | | Strain: | --- | | detected when: | 1990 | | where: | Elmshorn, FRG | | Classification: | system virus (bootblock), resident | | Length: | 1.length on storage medium : 1024 byte 2.length in RAM : 1024 byte |
Preconditions | | Operating System(s): | AMIGA-DOS | | Version/Release: | 1.2/33.166, 1.2/33.180 and 1.3/34.20 | | Computer model(s): | AMIGA 500, AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 2000A, AMIGA 2000B | | Caroname: | AlienNewBeat.Original |
Attributes | | Easy identification: | typical text on bootblock: ' THIS IS THE ALIEN NEW BEAT BOOT! THE BOOT ' 'WHICH CREATES A NEW DIMENSION IN MEMORY. THIS' ' IS A NEW STYLE OF VIRUS HUNTING!!! 179092 V' '1.0 Ir 04/01/1989 ' ' You won't believe it, but this thing' ' kills the SCA, ByteBandit, Dasa (ByteWarrior)' ', AIDS AND NorthStar virus!!!!!' | Type of Infection: | System infection : RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock | | Infection Technique: | | | Infection Trigger: | reset, any disk access | | Storage Media affected: | only floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25") | | Interrupts hooked: | --- | | Stealth: | | | Tunneling/Selfprot: | | | Oligo/Polymorphism: | | | Encoding Method: | | | Damage: | Permanent damage: overwriting bootblock, allocates 1296 Bytes at address $20000 Transient damage: some beeps and a black screen with a few colored lines, then screen becomes green | | Damage Trigger: | Permanent damage: reset, any DoIO-Function call Transient damage:after 65535 DoIO-Function calls | | Particularities: | uses SartIOVector; FindResident Function is changed; other resident programs using system resident list (KickTagPointer) are shutdown; copy counter at address $2037E; DoIO-Function call counter at address $20410 | | Similarities: | --- |
Agents | | Countermeasures: | without restrictions: CHECKVECTORS 2.2, VIRUSX 4.0, GUARDIAN 1.2 | | Standard means: | CHECKVECTORS 2.2 |
Acknowledgements | | Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany | | Classification by: | Wolfram Schmidt | | Documentation by: | Wolfram Schmidt | | Date: | 15-July-1991 |
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