Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically
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Leandro |
Some sources call this virus also Timewarp. This is a multi-sector, resident boot virus. Upon booting from an infected diskette the virus hooks the interrupt INT 13h and installs itself into MBR. But the way in which it calls the INT 13h (BIOS disk services) may cause collision. On October 21st the virus writes the following text:
Leandro and Kelly ! GV-MG-Brazil You have this virus since 21-01-1996
The first sentence is enclosed by two smiling faces (the character with code 01). The date behind “since” is subject to change, because it is the date when the computer was infected.
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