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Database : Cascade
Cascade
Virus Name: Cascade
Aliases: 1701, Fall, Hailstorm, Russian
Type: COM file infector
Resident: Yes
Stealth: No
Trigger: Original version: between 1st October and 31st December 1988.
Formatting version: between 1st October and 31st December in any year except 1993.
Payload: Original version: causes characters to `fall' from the screen.
Formatting version: formats sector zero of the hard disk.
Comments:

The 'falling characters' payload of the original Cascade virus is perhaps one of the most well known of virus side-effects.
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