| Virus
Name: |
Helloween |
| Aliases: |
None known |
| Type: |
COM and EXE files
infector |
| Resident: |
Yes |
| Stealth: |
No |
| Trigger: |
1st
November |
| Payload: |
Displays
the message in Czech: `Nesedte porad u pocitace a zkuste jednou
delat neco rozumneho! ******************* !! Poslouchejte HELLOWEEN#-#nejlepsi
metalovou skupinu !!' This translates as: `Don't just sit there,
do something reasonable! Listen to HELLOWEEN, the best heavy
metal band!!'. The virus then waits for a keypress, and reboots
the PC. |
| Comments: |
This virus targets other executable
files as well as COM and EXE. It has been reported to infect
BIN, OVR and certain SYS files. A primitive attempt to avoid
detection is made by specifically not infecting COMMAND.COM
and files with names that suggest they might be anti-virus
programs. The message for the payload is encrypted within
the virus code to make it more difficult to find.
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