| Alias: | |
| Strain: | |
| detected when: | 22-October-1991 |
| where: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Classification: | Program virus, non-resident, EXE-infector |
| Length: | 809 Bytes |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | MS-DOS |
| Version/Release: | 2.xx upward |
| Computer model(s): | IBM - PC, XT, AT and compatibles |
| Caroname: | Hafenstrasse.809 |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | --- |
Type of Infection: | The virus infects only EXE files. The virus is not memory-resident. |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | The virus infects in direct action; when an in- fected program is run, virus tries 5 times to find a file to infect, but will only in- fect one file at a time. |
| Storage Media affected: | |
| Interrupts hooked: | --- |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | The message "Hafenstrasse bleibt !" is written to a hidden file. The name of the file is composed of 4 randomly-chosen letters. Even though this seems to be fairly harmless, this will eventually fill the disk, or the capacity of the directory may be exceeded. Remark: the text "Hafenstrasse bleibt!" (=har- bour street remains) is a slogan which some inhabitants (belonging to an "alternative scene") of Hamburg's "harbour street" use to publicly withstand local government plans to replace their old houses by new ones. |
| Damage Trigger: | A new file is created every time an infected file is run. |
| Particularities: | The text is encrypted (only the text). |
| Similarities: | |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | --- |
| Standard means: | --- |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany |
| Classification by: | Morton Swimmer |
| Documentation by: | Morton Swimmer |
| Date: | 20-November-1991 |
| Information Source: | |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg