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Itavir

ORIGIN:Italy
SIZE:3880
TYPE:Resident EXE-files
REPAIR:Yes

Summary

The virus is reported to activate after the system has been left running for at least 24 hours It will then corrupt the boot sector, write out a message in Italian, and start writing random values to all I/O ports. This is reported to cause a "hissing" sound from some VGA monitors.