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Reverse

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Virus

Aliases:

  • Reverse
  • Red Spider
  • Redspide

Summary

Reverse stays resident in memory and infects COM and EXE files when they are accessed.

Removal

Technical Details

Reverese is encrypted with a variable key. The body of the virus contains two filenames written backwards:

moc.dnammoc exe.niamcn

COMMAND.COM is infected by overwriting a block of zeroes inside it. NCMAIN.EXE is not infected at all.

Reverse contains the following text, which is not displayed:

Reverse-948 Created by Renata G. from Lubin City in Sept 1993

Variant:Reverse.B

Similar and also 948 bytes, but contains this text:

Red Spider Virus created by Garfield from Zielona Gora in Feb 1993

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