| Alias: | --- |
| Strain: | SCA Virus family |
| detected when: | --- |
| where: | --- |
| 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/all, 1.3/all, 2.0/all, 3.0/all |
| Computer model(s): | All models |
| Caroname: | SCA.Blade_Runners |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | Typical texts: ' Hello! We are the Blade Runners!' 'Now, what''s that ??????' ' It''s wonderful ...' 'Much of your disks are infected' 'by a VIRUS !!!' 'He he he he! It''s fine' 'A greet hello to TLC !' |
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 |
| 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: | Any resident program using the CoolCaptureVector is shutdown, also those using ColdCaptureVector when virus is shutdown by its `suicide` function |
| Similarities: | SCA virus family |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | Virus Workshop 3.0, VT 2.60, VC 6.33, VirusZ II 1.00 |
| Standard means: | VT 2.60 |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG |
| Classification by: | Jens Vogler |
| Documentation by: | Jens Vogler |
| Date: | 1. II. 1994 |
| Information Source: | virus disassembly |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg