| Alias: | BYTE WARRIOR II Virus |
| Strain: | BYTE WARRIOR Virus |
| detected when: | March 1989 |
| where: | Elmshorn, FRG |
| Classification: | system virus (bootblock), resident |
| Length: | 1. length on storage medium: 1024 byte 2. length in RAM : 1024 byte |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | AMIGA-DOS |
| Version/Release: | 1.2/33.180 |
| Computer model(s): | AMIGA 500, AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 2000A, AMIGA 2000B |
| Caroname: | ByteWarrior.Paramount |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | typical text: bootblock: 'PSWC !!' 'PARAMOUNT SOFTWORKS CREW 1988 : Greetings to Napoleon , Obelisk, Idefix, Asterix Hamburg ' in memory: 'Virus detector by the mighty Byte Warrior!!! Please, please, please don't install this disk, coz I want to travel! Spread the bootblock and the word!' |
Type of Infection: | self-identification method: --- system infection: RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | reset (CONTROL + Left-AMIGA + Right-AMIGA) operation: any disk access |
| Storage Media affected: | only floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25") |
| Interrupts hooked: | --- |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | permanent damage: overwriting bootblock transient damage: ColdCapture and CoolCapture vector are cleared |
| Damage Trigger: | permanent damage: reset operation: any disk access transient damage: reset |
| Particularities: | uses DoIOVector; other resident programs using the system resident list (KickTagPointer, KickMemPointer), ColdCapture or CoolCapture vector are shut down; checksum routine above capture vectors has been optimized (compared to BYTE WARRIOR virus code) |
| Similarities: | BYTE WARRIOR virus, only 'PARAMOUNT...' text was written to free space at the end of the BYTE WARRIOR bootblock |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2', 'GUARDIAN 1.2', 'VIRUSX 4.0' |
| Standard means: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2' |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG |
| Classification by: | Wolfram Schmidt |
| Documentation by: | Alfred Manthey Rojas |
| Date: | 5-June-1990 |
| Information Source: | --- |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg