| Alias: | --- |
| Strain: | --- |
| detected when: | 1988 |
| where: | USA |
| Classification: | All files |
| Length: | Resource fork extension: 712 bytes |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | MacOS proprietary |
| Version/Release: | All |
| Computer model(s): | Apple Macintosh: all models |
| Caroname: | INIT_29 |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | Additional INIT 29 resource in System file; garbage may appear as resource name, or resource name ""; in both cases (CODE,INIT) |
Type of Infection: | All |
| Infection Technique: | System File: INIT ID 29 712 Bytes Applicaton: CODE 712 Bytes ID is first free ID number starting from 1 Files without CODE resources get an INIT 29 resource |
| Infection Trigger: | Executing an infected file |
| Storage Media affected: | |
| Interrupts hooked: | OpenResFile |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | Overwrites an existing INIT 29 resource |
| Damage Trigger: | --- |
| Particularities: | --- |
| Similarities: | --- |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | Use of a commercial anti-viral product or a public domain utility such as Virus Detective, VirusRx, Interferon or Disinfectant to scan for virus signature. |
| Standard means: | |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany |
| Classification by: | Ronald Greinke |
| Documentation by: | Ronald Greinke |
| Date: | 15-July-1991 |
| Information Source: | --- |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg