| Alias: | --- |
| Strain: | SCA Virus |
| detected when: | unknown |
| where: | unknown |
| 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: | 1.2/33.166, 1.2/33.180 and 1.3/34.20 |
| Computer model(s): | all AMIGAs |
| Caroname: | SCA.2001 |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | Typical text: 'Hi I m the 2001 Virus by Hacker Cracker GmbH Germany All creatures of... darkness are waiting to the year 2001 when SATAN comes and WORLD is burning' Also: 'A2001200120012001200120012001!' at the end of the bootblock. Virus feature: pressing left mouse/fire button of port 1 during system reboot causes the screen to become green and the virus to shut down it- self by clearing ColdCapture and CoolCapture Vectors |
Type of Infection: | Self-identification method: compares bootblock checksum with precalculated virus checksum System infection: RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | Reset (CONTROL+Left-AMIGA+RIGHT-AMIGA) |
| 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: screen buffer manipulation: screen becomes black, message (see above) is shown by fading in and out pieces of it |
| Damage Trigger: | Permanent damage: reset Transient damage: 15th infection |
| Particularities: | A resident program using the CoolCaptureVector is shut down, also when using the ColdCapture Vector when the virus is shut down by its 'suicide' function; DoIO vector is changed |
| Similarities: | AEK virus |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2', 'GUARDIAN 1.2', 'VIRUSKILLER 2.0', 'SCA-PROTECTOR 1.0', 'VIRUSX 4.0'; own suicide function |
| Standard means: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2' |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG |
| Classification by: | Wolfram Schmidt, Karim Senoucci |
| Documentation by: | Karim Senoucci |
| Date: | 7-July-1992 |
| Information Source: | --- |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg