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TPVO.3345
This is a relatively harmless memory resident polymorphic and stealth parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed. The infected files contain ID-text at the file end:
TPVO
The virus turns off its stealth routines if one of these utilities is executed:
SCANDISK
CHKDSK
PKZIP
LHARC
ARJ
RAR
LHA
UUC
UC
On the 30th of any month and on the 3rd of August, the virus displays the following message:
Declaration of establish of "Taiwan PowerVirus Organization"
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We are member of TPVO, we apologize for interrupt your work,
we would like to let you know some important message, THE TPVO
HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED.
Due to illegal copy of software and false advertising, we
will make many perfect virus to spread in the world, for your
own benefit and support of "you paid for what you use" concept,
please support the legal copy of software program,please notice
false advertisement, for ex: Taiwan local anti-virus program
"ZLOCK", they claim "they can prevent any kind of future virus"
, we will take out their false mask under general public.
Please watch out any new information about our cool computer
virus.
[T.P.V.O] |
