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Stink Family
These are dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files of the current directory and write themselves to the beginning and to the end of the file:
+-------+ +-------+
¦ File ¦---+ ¦Virus ¦ - the first part of the virus
¦- - - -¦ ¦ +-------¦
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ File ¦
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
+-------+ ¦ ¦- - - -¦
+->¦ ¦
+-------¦
¦Virus ¦ - the second part of the virus
¦ ¦
+-------+
These viruses hooksINT 24h in wrong way and halt the system while infecting a file on a write-protected disk. These infectors contain the string "*.COM.COMMAND".
The viruses check the system time, and if the value of seconds is equal to the value of minutes, the viruses with the probability of 1/4 display the messages:
"Stink.1252,1254,1283": StinkFoot has arrived on your PC !
"Stink.1270,1283.b": StinkFoot: 'Eat this Paul Ducklin' |
