Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically
Joshi |
This is a stealth boot virus. The infection appears upon an attempt to load system from an infected diskette. The virus attacks the hard disk’s MBR and it stores its contents on a different location. As soon as the virus is installed in the memory it tries to attack diskettes which had not been infected. On January 5th it presents itself by writing the following text on the screen:
Type "Happy Birthday Joshi" !
and waits till the user types the required text.
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