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Deicide II

Classification

Category:

Malware

Aliases:

  • Deicide

Summary

A primitive 666 byte overwriting virus. When it activates, it wipes out the first 80 sectors on drive C:. The virus contains the following text:

DEICIDE! Glenn (666) says : BYE BYE HARDDISK!! Next time be carufull with illegal stuff. This experimental virus was written by Glenn Benton to see if I can make a virus while learning machinecode for 2,5 months. (C) 10-23-1990 by Glenn. I keep on going making virusses.

Removal

Technical Details

Variant:Deicide II

Size:1335

Other: COM-files

Repair:Yes

This virus is a bit more sophisticated that the first one, but contains equally childish messages.

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