Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically
Walhala |
This virus is named by the string in its body (Walhala is also name of a Nordic saga). The author seems to be a beginner as he does not use string operations and not even loops. The virus is a simple, 1283 bytes long, parasitic COM infector. The author made an error when writing the body into the file (very frequent error with beginners) and length of the body intended to be decimal wrote as hex. As a result of this the virus “hauls” a heap of litter stuck to its tail. The virus is treacherous as on the 31st day in a month it deletes the boot sector on the hard disk C.
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