Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically

This is a simple boot virus occupying 1 Kb below the top of memory. When an attempt is made to load the system from an infected diskette the virus hooks the interrupts INT 12h and INT 13h, and attacks hard disk’s MBR. It attacks sectors of diskettes in the drive when they are read. In May the virus writes the following text on the screen:

Only bug exist! ->RP 1995 Bucharest

and ends in an infinite cycle.

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