Hello Virus

Alias:Hello_1a, Hall(oe)chen
Strain:
detected when:January 1990
where:South-West-Germany
Classification:Matthias Jaenichen, Christoph Fischer
Length:2011 Bytes

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:3.00+
Computer model(s):IBM compatibles
Caroname:Halloechen.A

Attributes

Easy identification:Textstring: "Hall(oe)chen, here I'm" "Acrivate Level 1" (wrong syntax!)

Type of Infection:

Link-Virus; Infects COM- and EXE-files

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Any program file with file-date different from the system-date (only year/month)
Storage Media affected:Floppy and harddisk
Interrupts hooked:INT 21h, function 4Bh INT 08h and INT 16h for Damage
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Slows system down, corrupts keyboard-entries (pressing "A" produces "B")
Damage Trigger:Infection-level greater than 50 or 70
Particularities:The damage will not be activated.
Similarities:---

Agents

Countermeasures:CleanV57+
Standard means:---

Acknowledgements

Location:VTC-Hamburg, BIT-Karlsruhe
Classification by:
Documentation by:Matthias Jaenichen
Date:31-January-1990
Information Source:---

(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg