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IstanbulCCC

ALIAS:Tubo, ystanbul
TYPE:Resident Boot sectors MBR Stealth

Summary

This is a typical stealth boot sector virus, which beeps and displays this text after every 15 infected floppies:

        ystanbulCCC was here! He he


Otherwise the virus just spreads.

IstanbulCCC was reported to be in the wild in the UK in April 1996.

[Analysis: Peter Szor, F-Secure, 1996]