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Locust Family
These are not dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 9, 21h, 2Fh and write themselves to the end of .COM files that are executed.
Depending on the system timer the viruses exchange the video fonts of the symbols '1' and '2', changes the keys in keyboard buffer. "Locust.1158" also manifests itself with a sound effect, and with a video effect if EGA video adapter is installed. These viruses contain the text strings:
.COM
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