0003965782@mcimail.com (Sanford Sherizen) (11/28/90)
>One person, he says, tells him that he's seeing several Dark Avenger reports >per week. Does this agree with anyone else's observations? We get rather few >reports of the Dark Avenger (or the VACSINA, or any other TPxxVIRs, or really >any other "Bulgarian" viruses); are there places (many places?) in the world >where these viruses are very common? USSR installations have been hit many times by various "Bulgarian" viruses. Bulgaria was a significant supplier of hardware and software for the Soviets, although I suspect it is much less so now. Reports have also been given about these viruses spreading through Eastern Bloc nations. A brief discussion on this is found in my COMPUTERWORLD article, "Lack in the USSR" (Aug. 20, 1990, InDepth, 73-74). Sandy
ELKALAMARAS@vaxsar.vassar.edu (11/29/90)
Although Dark Avenger is not a virus that can be frequently seen in the U.S., I can tell you that it is often found in pirateware in Greece. As a SysOp of one of the major BBS's in Athens, I have seen it in at least three different uploaded files (by different people of course, none of who knew they had it). It was also found in pre-formatted and pre-loaded hard disks that a computer store in Athens sold with their computers, before they realized that they had a virus in their computer. Lefteris Kalamaras Vassar College (914) 451-2824 ELKALAMARAS@VAXSAR.BITNET elkalama@csnxt1.vassar.edu