| Alias: | --- | | Strain: | BYTE BANDIT Virus Strain | | detected when: | JANUARY 1990 | | where: | Elmshorn, Germany | | Classification: | System virus (bootblock), resident | | Length: | 1. Length on storage medium: 1,024 byte 2. Length in RAM : 1,024 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 (and only wi | | Caroname: | ByteBandit.Forpib.Original |
Attributes | | Easy identification: | Typical text: " - FORPIB - 09.88 - No 197102 - " | Type of Infection: | Self-identification method: --- System infection: RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock | | Infection Technique: | | | Infection Trigger: | reset (=CONTROL+Left-AMIGA+Right-AMIGA) operation: any disk access | | Storage Media affected: | only floppy disk (3.5" and 5.25") | | Interrupts hooked: | vertical blank interupt | | Stealth: | | | Tunneling/Selfprot: | | | Oligo/Polymorphism: | | | Encoding Method: | | | Damage: | Permanent damage: overwriting bootblock, maybe destroying opened files when screen and key- board are shut off and the user has to restart system using CONTROL+LEFT-AMIGA+RIGHT-AMIGA Transient damage: screen buffer manipulation: screen becomes dark, keyboard seems to mal- function; transient damage may be interrupted by pressing special key combination: LEFT-ALT+LEFT-AMIGA (on newer AMIGAS the COMMODORE key)+SPACE+RIGHT-AMIGA+RIGHT ALT (but the virus will still be active) | | Damage Trigger: | Permanent damage: reset; any disk access Transient damage: only under following condition: 2 resets AND 6 infections AND execution of BYTE BANDIT's own interrupt routine 5208 times (approx. 7 minutes) | | Particularities: | uses StartIOVector; other resident programs using the system resident list (KickTagPointer, KickMemPointer) are shutdown Copy counter: 19th word | | Similarities: | BYTEBANDIT virus strain |
Agents | | Countermeasures: | CHECKVECTORS 2.2,GUARDIAN 1.2,VIRUSX 4.0 | | Standard means: | CHECKVECTORS 2.2 |
Acknowledgements | | Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany | | Classification by: | Wolfram Schmidt | | Documentation by: | Wolfram Schmidt | | Date: | 1-NOVEMBER-1991 | | Information Source: | --- |
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