LoveChild Trojan Horse

Alias:
Strain:Lovechild Strain
detected when:
where:
Classification:Trojan Horse
Length:64 Bytes

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:all DOS-versions
Computer model(s):IBM-PC, XT, AT and compatibles
Caroname:LoveChild.Killed

Attributes

Easy identification:Text "LoveChild in reward for software sealing." is contained within the file. The trojan has a lenght of 64 bytes.

Type of Infection:

This trojan is installed by LoveChild virus.

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:---
Storage Media affected:
Interrupts hooked:---
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Trojan writes garbage onto the first harddisk, starting with track 0 and using the first 4 heads. This trojan counts through all tracks, overwriting each, until the harddisk is completely thrashed.
Damage Trigger:Execution of the trojan.
Particularities:See: LoveChild Virus (Computer Virs Catalog)
Similarities:---

Agents

Countermeasures:
Standard means:Delete infected files, copy uninfected versions from original write-protected disk.

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany
Classification by:Toralv Dirro, Gerald Schrod
Documentation by:Toralv Dirro, Gerald Schrod
Date:15-July-1991
Information Source:---

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