The V800 virus (Live after Death)

 


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  Vesselin Bontchev reported in May 1990:


  The V800 virus (Live after Death)

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  I was already sending this letter, when a new virus popped up.  I

  haven't studied it yet. At a first glance, it has the following

  properties:


  - The virus infects .COM-files in a rather strange way.  Large parts

  of them can be found in the virus body and parts of the virus can be

  found in the file (before the end of the original - non-infected -

  file). It does not infect files with size less than 1024 bytes.  It

  seems that COMMAND.COM is never infected (there is a check for 'CO'

  and 'MM' in the virus body).  Sometimes the virus can attach itself

  multiple times to a file.  Files grow by 800 bytes after each

  infection.


  - Files are infected both when one executes them and when one copies

  them.


  - The virus is memory resident. It uses 8 K of memory.  I still

  cannot figure out why so much memory is needed.


  - The virus is able to fetch the original INT 13h handler in PC-DOS

  version 3.30. This is achieved in the same manner as in the Number

  of the Beast (512) virus.


  - The virus does not intercept INT 21h. Instead, it intercepts INT

  2Ah, function 82h. This interrupt is called on every DOS function

  call, which deals with files.


  - The virus is encrypted. It seems that the encrypted part does not

  change from file to file (as the Cascade virus does), but I'm not

  sure.


  - When the virus decrypts itself in memory, the string "Live after

  Death" appears in its body. I have suspicions that this virus was

  also created by the Dark Avenger.



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