Peach Virus

Alias:
Strain:
detected when:
where:
Classification:Program (COM&EXE) Virus (appending), resident
Length:On media: 887 Bytes.

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:2.00 and above
Computer model(s):
Caroname:Peach

Attributes

Easy identification:The following text can be found in infected files: "Roy XuatroNo 2 Peach GardenMeyer Rd. Spore 1543"

Type of Infection:

Virus infects COM and EXE files. It identifies EXE files by looking for "Z" at position 1. Virus goes memory-resident.

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Load and Execute (Int 21h function 4B00)
Storage Media affected:Anything that can be addressed using DOS calls (floppy diskettes, hard disks)
Interrupts hooked:Int 21h, Int 23h and Int 24h (Control-C and Critical Error Handler) during infection.
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Transient Damage: --- Permanent Damage: if file "chklist.cps" (crea- ted by Central Point AntiVirus) is found, this file is deleted.
Damage Trigger:If file "chklist.cps" is found.
Particularities:---
Similarities:---

Agents

Countermeasures:Skulason F-PROT 2.02, Solomon FindViru 3.5
Standard means:---

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany S&S Internati
Classification by:Morton Swimmer
Documentation by:Morton Swimmer
Date:7-July-1992
Information Source:Original virus

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