sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) (09/02/90)
This is the translated version of an article in an Indonesian Computer Magazine, as I noted in a posting of VIRUS-L edition Friday, August 31, 1990 about mysterious message. In the magazine, also shown the picture of the author of SEMLOHE AND KEONGZ virus. No more information I have instead of this one. ========================================================================= INDONESIAN VIRUS * HACKER Hacker is come from Bandung, Indonesia. A rectangle will appear from a line and then it will become bigger horizontally. Inside the rectangle, written Bandung and the author, Hacker. There is no damage from this virus. * DENZUKO With a nice graphic, come from left and right, the computer write DENZUKO in the monitor screen. The author of this virus is the same with HACKER. Those 2 viruses are the cause of boot-sector viruses in Indonesia. No damage come from this virus. From these viruses come many modification. Modification usually made on the graphics which is uniqe. And also there is a program which will change the graphic DENZUKO into the graphics you would like to be. * PC CLUB With a different technique, without warm-boot (ctrl-alt- del), a message will appear every 30 minutes. To eliminate this virus is using SYS command. No major damage caused by this virus. * MARDI BROS Is a boot-sector virus and appear by warm-boot. This virus made from a University in Jakarta, Indonesia. There may be another version of this virus which will damage hard- disk. * AREMA This virus is come from Malang, Indonesia. AREMA is an abbreviation of "Arek-Arek Malang" or in English mean "People of Malang." No clear idea who made this virus, but it seems that this virus is a modification of DENZUKO. * SEMLOHE and KEONGZ This virus once grow very fast in East Java, Indonesia. The author, Sigit Wasista, live in Surabaya, Indonesia said that this virus made only for experiment only. After there are CBrain, Hacker, and Denzuko viruses, Sigit tried to view and analyize those viruses and add background song when the viruses come and finally SEMLOHE AND KEONGZ created. * PC MONSTAR PC MONSTAR virus made by Handiyanto, a student of one University in Indonesia in computer major. TOETOE RULIANDA also from one University in Indonesia with the same major. This virus grow in East Java, and it has the same style and appearnace looks like Denzuko * ROBERT/NARWIN This virus using the same method as PC CLUB. But it is using graphics instead of text. The letters that appear looks like Japanese character (Katakana), so it is called Japan Virus * SUPERNOVA The author Fen Tjin, a student from a university in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the first local virus that made some damages, reformat the diskette. This virus will format the diskette when there is instruction to print to the printer. And there will be message in the printer, and then it stop. * FREDDY Freddy was made by one of a student in a academy of computer in Indonesia. It infected the program, not a boot sector virus. The program infected is IBMBIO.COM The characteristic of this virus is the appearance of FREDDY in a box. * AMOEBA This is a .COM and .EXE virus. This virus infect when using disk access, such as copy, dir, etc. When "DIR" command is instructed, the virus will search for COMMAND.COM and if that file is free of virus, it will infect. When it is active, it will appear a message "SMA KHETAPUNK - NOUVEL Band A.M.O.E.B.A. by PrimeSoft Inc." This message only appear on CGA. "SMA KHETAPHUNK" is an Indonesian Senior High School, the name of the school is "SMA KETAPANG." * MYSTIK This virus will infect .EXE and .COM file. To find out if a file is infected, we can use "TYPE" command to one of the file that is suspected. If we did it, the message "- MYSTIC - COPYRIGHT (C) 1989 - 2000 by SsAsMsUsEsL" This is a new virus and there is no vaccine. The author, Samuel, this year, he just graduated from Senior High School. He is working in one of the center of Computer business in Jakarta, Indonesia. ================================================================= Disclaimer: This article is translated freely without permission from an Indonesian computer magazine, " InfoKomputer ", July 1990. Most of the article is not translated exactly words by words. And I don't have any other information about this viruses. And I don't have these viruses. Mul sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu
frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (09/05/90)
Some comments about the Indonesian viruses... > * HACKER This one is known as "Ohio" elsewhere in the world - It is closely related to The next one - using the same "buggy" method of formatting track 40 and storing the virus code there. > * DENZUKO Known as Den Zuk. In addition to the information in the original message it must be added that the virus removes "Brain" and "Ohio" from diskettes, replacing them with copies of itself. The virus changes the volume label into Y.C.1.E.R.P, but as YC1ERP is the call-sign of a radio-amateur in Bandung, Indonesia, he is suspected of being the author. Both viruses are not able to format 1.2M or 3.5" diskettes properly - damaging the contents instead - the claim that "No damage come from this virus." is far from being correct. > * MARDI BROS Reported in France, and originally believed to have been written there. This virus contains the text "sudah ada vaksin" (Vaccine already exists), which I recently asked about. > * AMOEBA This virus has been known for some time, and detection/disinfection programs are available. > * MYSTIK This virus is known under the name of "Liberty". Detection and disinfection programs are available. > * PC CLUB > * AREMA > * SEMLOHE and KEONGZ > * PC MONSTAR > * ROBERT/NARWIN > * SUPERNOVA > * FREDDY None of those viruses are yet known in the West - maybe we can expect a flood of Indonesian viruses soon..... :-( - -frisk