Summary
This is a boot sector virus, which contains the following encrypted texts:
OH-MY-GOD! Moloch (tm) is here!
Moloch is a trademark of SquiBoyz
The virus modifies only few bytes in the boot sector. It uses variable encryption.
Moloch also modifies the CMOS settings to force a boot to happen always from the hard drive. Finally, Moloch uses direct I/O to control the hard drive, which makes it quite difficult virus to bypass if it's already resident in memory.
Disinfection & Removal
Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.
For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.
Description Created: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure
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