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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Trojector





NAME:Trojector
ALIAS:Athens
ORIGIN:Greece
TYPE:Resident COM/EXE-files
REPAIR:Yes

When this virus is in memory it infects all EXE and COM files that are executed or opened.

1463 and 1561 bytes long variants are known. The longer variant was found from Finland in August 1994.

The 1463 variant has a following message encrypted inside it:

         TROJECTOR II,(c) Armagedon Utilities, Athens 1992

and text inside the 1561 variant is:

  TROJECTOR ]I[,(c) Armagedon Utilities, Athens 1992, Greetings to Vesselin

"Vesselin" probably means antivirus expert Vesselin Bontchev from the University of Hamburg.