F-Secure Virus Descriptions : IstanbulCCC

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

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]