| Alias: | --- |
| Strain: | --- |
| detected when: | 8th September 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: | 1.2/33.166, 1.2/33.180, 1.3/34.5 |
| Computer model(s): | AMIGA 500, AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 2000A, AMIGA 200B |
| Caroname: | Timebomb_Vir.1_0 |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | typical text: 'YOU CAME ALL THE WAY FOR SHIT! HAVE A NICE DAY SUCKER', 'TIMEBOMB V1.0 CODED BY ARKON MEMBER OF AVIREX. IDEA BY THE WIZARDS INC. NOTE : IT SEEMS THAT THEY WERE NOT INTERESTED BECAUSE I DID NOT GET ANY ANSWER OF THEM' (not used by TIMEBOMB 1.0) |
Type of Infection: | self-identification method: --- system infection: bootblock of one disk |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | reset |
| Storage Media affected: | floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25") |
| Interrupts hooked: | --- |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | permanent damage: blocks boot procedure after 3rd infection of disk; destroys root directory after 2nd infection (see below) transient damage: depending from it's counter |
| Damage Trigger: | permanent damage: blocking boot procedure after 3rd infection of disk (see below) transient damage: counter (see below) |
| Particularities: | uses a counter on which action type depends: counter < 2 : increase counter and rewrite TIMEBOMB 1.0 to disk, normal boot procedure counter = 2 : display alert box containing text #1 (see above), overwrites root directory now (22 blocks) counter > 2 : GURU MEDITATION because of a bug library isn't initialized, else the alert box containing test #1 would be displayed |
| Similarities: | --- |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | witout restrictions: 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2', 'VIRUSX 4.0' with restrictions: 'GUARDIAN 1.2' |
| 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