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Platov Family
These are very dangerous memory resident parasitic partly encrypted viruses. They copy themselves to the address 9800:0000h, and hook INT 8, 17h, 21h. While executing the viruses search for COM files of the current directory (except COMMAND.COM) and write themselves to the end of the file.
Depending on the system date the viruses delete the files that are executed, reboot the computer, change the symbols that are printed.
While selecting the A: drive the viruses display the message in Russian "Don't use floppy disks! There may be the viruses!" and erase the floppy disk sectors.
While selecting the GAMES or ANT subdirectories the viruses display the messages in Russian about computer games.
The viruses also contain the text strings:
Access Denied Software presents
The PC Virus
Programmed by Andrey Platov 15 years old on 09.07.1992
Hello to Igan, Pershin
gamesantCOMMAND*.COM |
