| Alias: | --- |
| Strain: | --- |
| detected when: | November 1990 (?origin) |
| where: | Kassel, FRG (?) |
| Classification: | Bootsector virus |
| Length: | 510 Bytes |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | Atari-TOS |
| Version/Release: | 1.0, 1.2 ,1.4 |
| Computer model(s): | All types of the Atari ST series |
| Caroname: | Gauweiler |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | At the end of the boot sector, following text "AIDS" and "Gauweilers Rache V 3.0 4.7.88"; at the begin of bootsector: $52F6498A (hex). Remark: Dr. Gauweiler is a Bavarian politician well known for his resentments against people seeking asylum in Bavaria. |
Type of Infection: | Infects bootsector of the disk A, if it is regarded to be uninfected, or if an old version of this virus is on bootsector (V2.0). |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | Check if bootsector is executable. |
| Storage Media affected: | Infection of disk in drive A. |
| Interrupts hooked: | BIOS-trap used and changed by this virus. |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | Infects the bootsector of the disk, if it is regarded to be uninfected; clears first 9 sectors of track 0 with the FAT. |
| Damage Trigger: | If counter at start of virus + 6 modulo 32=0; value depends on number of infections. |
| Particularities: | --- |
| Similarities: | --- |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | --- |
| Standard means: | Write-protect the disk; write an easily identifiable bootsector; "manually" change the checksum to a value other than $1234. |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG |
| Classification by: | Ralf Stegen |
| Documentation by: | Ralf Stegen |
| Date: | 31-January-1991 |
| Information Source: | --- |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg