GX TEAM Virus

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Strain:---
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Classification:System virus (bootblock), resident
Length:1. Length on storage medium: 1024 byte 2. Length in RAM: 2048 byte

Preconditions

Operating System(s):AMIGA-DOS
Version/Release:1.2/all
Computer model(s):all models
Caroname:GX-Team

Attributes

Easy identification:---

Type of Infection:

RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:DoIO
Storage Media affected:Only floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25")
Interrupts hooked:Hardware-Interrupt 3
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Permanent damage : Overwriting bootblock Transient damage : System reset after Alert was displayed
Damage Trigger:Permanent damage : Read/Write DoIO on bootblock Transient damage : 4432nd DoIO-call after a number of resets divisible by 5 after virus installation
Particularities:A resident program using the CoolCaptureVector or ColdCaptureVector is shut down.
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Agents

Countermeasures:VirusZ 3.00, VT 2.48, BootX 5.23
Standard means:VT 2.48

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:Jens Vogler, Karim Senoucci
Documentation by:Jens Vogler, Karim Senoucci
Date:14-December-1992
Information Source:Virus Analysis

(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg