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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : MMIR





NAME:MMIR
ALIAS:Immortal Riot
ORIGIN:Sweden

Immortal Riot is a virus writing group based in Sweden. They have written several simple and buggy viruses, which they actively spread. Some of these viruses were posted to Fidonet's INT.VIRUS conference as DEBUG scripts in the end of 1993.

VARIANT:Immortal.282
ALIAS:Extasy
TYPE:Resident COM-files

This virus contains text 'EXTASY! (c) Metal Militia / Immortal Riot'.

VARIANT:Immortal.392
ALIAS:Ravage
TYPE:Resident COM/EXE-files

This virus contains text 'RAVAGE! (c) Metal Militia / Immortal Riot', and infects also EXE files.

There is a large number of other viruses authored by this group.

[Analysis: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure]