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Russel Family
These are memory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed.
"Russel.1200,1235" are the dangerous viruses, they also hook INT 13h and sometimes disable writing to the disks ("Russel.1200"), or write to disk instead of reading ("Russel.1235").
"Russel.3072" is dangerous polymorphic virus. It deletes the CHKLIST.MS file, and contains the text strings:
CHKLIST.MS
RUSSEL FARADAY |