| Alias: | LameGame |
| Strain: | Timebomb_Vir detected when.: -- where.: -- |
| detected when: | |
| where: | |
| Classification: | System virus (bootblock), resident |
| Length: | 1. Length on storage medium: 1024 byte 2. Length in RAM: byte |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | AMIGA-OS |
| Version/Release: | all system releases |
| Computer model(s): | all models |
| Caroname: | Timebomb_Vir.TAI4 |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | Typical text: ' Have a nice day Sorry Look for T.A.I. the best..' |
Type of Infection: | |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | booting from infected disk |
| Storage Media affected: | |
| Interrupts hooked: | |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | Permanent damage: 1) overwriting bootblock 2) overwriting rootblock Transient damage: stealing you time by showing one Alert (booting will be stopped until you close the Alert box) |
| Damage Trigger: | Permanent damage: 1) first boot 2) every but the first boot Transient damage: every but the first boot |
| Particularities: | This virus has two major design mistakes. First: It writes -- while booting -- the copy of itself to disk but this means that it writes itself back onto the disk from which it came from. Second: It has a routine for the third, fourth, ... booting, but this will never be used, because the second boot routine don t write the virus back to disk and so it will never notice that this booting is not one of the two first ones. |
| Similarities: | --- |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | VirusZ II 1.09, VT 2.67, Virus Checker 6.43, Virus Workshop 3.6 |
| Standard means: | VirusZ II 1.09, VT 2.67, Virus Checker 6.43, Virus Workshop 3.6 |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany |
| Classification by: | Jens Vogler |
| Documentation by: | Jens Vogler |
| Date: | 1-July-1994 |
| Information Source: | reverse engeneering of original virus |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg