Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically

Vampiro.1000
This is a non-resident COM infector not attacking COMMAND.COM. The virus exists in several variants. When the month of May is over, instead of executing a program depending on the system time the virus will display the following text:

Zarathustra & Drako les comunican que llego la hora de ir a dormir. Shh!

There are also other texts in the virus:

Vampiro Virus. chklist.ms anti-vir.dat

Vampiro.1492, Vampiro 1542, Vampiro.1545, Vampiro.1619, Vampiro .1621, Vampiro.1623

These are memory resident, encrypted, stealth COM and EXE infectors. They erase files ANTI-VIR.DAT and CHKLIST.MS; they do not attack some anti-virus programs and they deactivate the resident protection VSAFE. Depending on the date and time the occasionally display the following text:

NO NO NO!! Que hace todavia despierto?!?! Drako & Zarathustra le OBLIGAN a dormir. Que sea la última vez, ok?!?! En caso contrario, morira.. JAJAJAJAJAJA

The last line of the text is slightly different depending on specific virus versions.

Vampiro.1492: Vampiro 2.0 Versión de Batalla
Vampiro.1542, Vampiro.1545: Vampiro 2.02 Versión de Batalla
Vampiro.1619, Vampiro.1623: Vampiro 2.4 Versión de Batalla - (C) Digital Anarchy Viral Development
Vampiro.1621: Vampiro 2.5: - (C) Digital Anarchy Viral Development

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