F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Trivial
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This is actually a group of non-related viruses, which have two features
in common - they are all shorter than 50 bytes, and infect programs by
overwriting them. The viruses are mostly an experiment in tight coding,
and are too obvious to be a serious threat. Currently the shortest virus
is only 22 bytes.
Like all other overwriting viruses, they cannot be properly disinfected,
as infection destroys the original program, so the only solution is to
delete all infected files.
This virus is 200 bytes long, but most of that is just a long text
message.
Much longer than the other variants, but most of it is just a silly text
message, which starts like this:
Oh, oh, oh, She's my cover girl,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, She's my cover girl,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Cover Girl by The New Kids On The Block
Hangin' Tough (c) 1988 CBS Records
Yet another silly virus - 139 bytes long and contains the text:
BANANA, coded by Morbid Angel -92 in Stockholm/Sweden
Obvious, non-interesting variant.
might be a good idea to search all files for infection, as some members
of Trivial family will corrupt data files by overwriting them with their
own code. F-Secure anti-virus products are able to locate these
corrupted data files so you can replace them with good copies.
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