Steroid INIT Trojan horse

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detected when:
where:
Classification:Trojan horse
Length:78 bytes

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MacOS proprietary
Version/Release:All
Computer model(s):Apple Macintosh: all models
Caroname:Steroid_Trojan

Attributes

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Type of Infection:

Starting Mac with Steroid INIT installed

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:see above
Storage Media affected:First 32768 volumes connected
Interrupts hooked:---
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Renaming all volumes to "Untitled" and initiali- sing bootsector; all files and directories are lost.
Damage Trigger:Year>1989 and month>6
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Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany
Classification by:Ronald Greinke
Documentation by:Ronald Greinke
Date:15-July-1991
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(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg