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Maverick family
These are very dangerous memory resident polymorphic parasitic viruses. They trace and hook INT 21h, then it write themselves to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed.
Depending on the system date "Maverick.1536" erases the disk sectors. It contains the text string:
(c) ETERNAL MAVERICK. Kiev Computer Virus Club 1994.
If month number plus one is equal to day number (February 1st, March 2nd, all) "Maverick.2048" sets INT 4 (Overflow) to INT 13h, that may corrupt data on disk. If month number plus two is equal to day number, this virus displays the message and halts the computer:
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| | LETS REST UNTIL TOMORROW ! | |
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| (c) ETERNAL MAVERICK 1995. |
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Press RESET to continue...
Maverick.3584
It is a dangerous memory resident polymorphic and stealth parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM, EXE, SYS and OVL files that are accessed. The virus does not infect files with names that contain the sub-strings: PRO, SCA, EXT, WEB, COM, WIN.
The virus searches in root directories of all available disks for files that have 6th symbol of name the same as disk letter, and deletes them.
The virus contains the text string:
Universe (c) Eternal Maverick |
