[comp.virus] Virus Report from Brazil

COS20001@UFRJ.BITNET (Geraldo Xexeo) (08/29/89)

I think that the netland could be interested in a Virus Report
from Brazil. It is important to say that in Brazil there aren't
big networks or lots of Lan's. Most of the virus are distributed
by disks.

Source: O Globo (nation-wide newspaper) from a research of Modulo
Consultants.(21/8/89)

Number of micro-computers researched: 550.

Viruses detected : disease
  Brain, Israely : lost of files
  Ping Pong      : a bouncing ball in the video , no harm
  sUMsDos        : slows machine, uses memory, no harm detected
  Alameda        : harm winchester
  Lehigh         : harm any disks (Why Lehigh?)
  Madonna        : While Madonna sings in your video, you looseyour disk
  Cookie         : Shows "Give me a cookie" in the video
  Water fall     : fallof characters(translated from Cascata)
  Mailson        : inversion of characters in video and printer
                 : named after a Brazilian politician

Number of detections:
  Jan: 2
  Feb: 4
  Mar: 6
  Apr: 12
  May: 22
  Jun: 41
  Jul: 66

Avaliation:
  Most of the virus are harmfull, thenames could not be right but
are the used in Brazil.More than 10% are infected. Exponencial growing.

                  From Brazil,
                              Geraldo Xexeo

CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David M. Chess) (08/31/89)

Does this imply that the Lehigh virus has been seen in Brazil?  That's
certainly news if so; first I've heard of it being anywhere outside
Lehigh.  Given the destructiveness of this virus, if it's gotten into
the World at Large, that'd be worth knowing for sure.  Did the article
give any more details and/or has anyone else heard of the Lehigh virus
spreading beyond Lehigh?

DC

[Ed. I'm not aware of either Lehigh virus having infected anything
outside of the Lehigh University campus.]