BURGER VIRUSES

 


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  BURGER VIRUSES


  Several primitive viruses have emerged as a result of Ralf Burger's

  book "Das Grosse Computervirenbuch" which was first published in

  1987 with an official English edition in 1988 and an (unofficial ?)

  Russian edition in 1990.


  A virus called 405 has given rise to several variants.


  405 is an early primitive overwriting virus that infects COM files

  only.  It is believed to have originated in Germany, influenced by

  Burger's book.


  Some anti-virus scanners simply identify it as BURGER


  It only infects files in the current directory and will continually

  reinfect the same file.


  Some viruses called VIRDEM, also described in the book, have also

  appeared, see separate report.

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