Techno

Alias:
Strain:-
detected when:
where:
Classification:COM-infector
Length:NONE

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:None
Computer model(s):PC's
Caroname:Techno

Attributes

Easy identification:

Type of Infection:

The virus appends itself to the files Selfrec in memory: None Selfrec on disk: (FILE[0]=0E9h) and (FILE[0Ah]=78h) and (FILE[0Ch]=79h)

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:(DIRECT_ACTION) and (LengthCOM >=10) and (LengthCom<61439)
Storage Media affected:
Interrupts hooked:1Ch, 24h
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Transient: Music, Videoeffect Permanent: None
Damage Trigger:Transient: Random(0.0025) Permanent: NoneSIDE_EFFECT: None
Particularities:Displayed text: "TECHNO""Don't touch the keyboard" Not displayed text: "*.COM""COMSPEC=" The virus tries to infect COMMAND.COM via the COMSPEC entryin the environment and then runs a find first/next loop inthe local directory. This loop will exit after a 1.15 sec.timeout.
Similarities:

Agents

Countermeasures:
Standard means:

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:Christoph Fischer, Micro-BIT Virus Center, University of Kar
Documentation by:Christoph Fischer, Micro-BIT Virus Center, University of Kar
Date:1992-12-28
Information Source:Caroentry (autom.converter by S.Freitag)

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