frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (12/19/89)
A few PC viruses have been reported but not made generally available
to the virus research community. The "missing" viruses are listed
below. If anyone can confirm the existence of any of them, I would
appreciate it.
2730. It seems that this "virus" does not exist.
Agiplan. This virus was described in a W-German newspaper. It is a bit
similar to the "Zero-Bug" virus. Both add 1536 bytes to the start
of .COM programs they infect.
Fallboot. A BSV that is reported by the VIRSCAN program from IBM. Produces
a display similar to that produced by 1701/1704.
Missouri, Nichols. Two boot sector viruses that were reported by
McAfee/Homebase, but are not included in a recent list by him.
Screen. Reported by Ross Greenberg, it may be just a variant of the South
African virus. Ross said it was uploaded to his BBS earlier this
year. He described it in an article in BYTE.
Jerusalem variants. Of the 13-14 different Jerusalem variants, only five
are "available".
Palette. Adds 1538 bytes to .COM files.
In addition the following viruses have been mentioned, but probably they
do not exist:
Cookie. .COM infector
Retro
Hyperspace
The rest of the PC viruses is probably in the hands of most virus researchers
by now.
- -friskCHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M..Chess) (01/03/90)
The "Falling Letters Boot Virus" is the name that we use around here for the boot-sector virus that's also known as "the Israeli Boot Virus" and "the Swapping Virus". Hope that clears that one up! I've heard the name "Palette" used to refer to the 1536 or "Zero Bug" virus. I've never been sure where that name came from; I think the first infected file found was a palette utility, or something like that? Vaguely, DC