Hellraiser’s version of the Leprosy virus. He was a member of the prolific virus group Phalcon/Skism. They released an e-zine between 1991 and 1998 called 40hex.
Tag Archives: 1990s
Virus.DOS.Burma (1997) is written by Bulgarian virus writer Dark Avenger. This virus is a non-resident overwriting virus which permanently corrupts the programs it infects.
During the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic games a Swedish virus writing group got some coverage for their Olympic-themed virus, known as Virus.DOS.VCL.Olympic.1440.
Toadie virus (1999).
A relocating virus-worm. It is encrypted and non-memory resident. This virus was posted to several newsgroups as a cell phone cloning application on 15th of August 1999. The virus was in CELLCRK.ZIP file. When the CELLCRK.EXE program that was inside that ZIP is run it displays a rhyme and a copyright string of Symantec.
Your PC has been infected by the Suicide virus.
I will now kill myself. Press D to disinfect.
The Suicide Virus by Phalcon/Skism (1992), via.
4k is a computer virus which infects COM files and EXE files.
The virus was one of the first to employ stealth tactics. Infected systems will hang, after September 22 every year, which is also the date of birth Bilbo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings).
The code was intended to display the message “Frodo Lives”, but hangs in all known variants. This virus was spread without the aid of the Internet. It was ported between systems by floppy disks.
Hymn virus (1990).
When the date and month correspond in number (January 1st, February 2nd,…), this virus destroys a part of the system information in the C: disk boot sector, then it plays the former USSR national anthem, and decrypts and displays the picture.
Virus by Spanska (1997):
1120.B virus.
To Carl Sagan, poet and scientist,this little Cosmos.
Elvira virus displays a moving message, similary to text in the beginning of the movie Star Wars with one of the following texts:
ELVIRA !
Black and White Girl from Paris
You make me feel alive.
ELVIRA !
Pars. Reviens. Respire.
Puis repars.
J’aime ton mouvement.
ELVIRA !
Bruja con ojos verdes
Eres un grito de vida,
un canto de libertad.
Olivia virus (1997).
It activates on the 10th of April and the 23rd of December. On these dates it will open the CD-ROM drive of the machine, ask the user to insert a music CD and then it starts to play the CD. After this the virus overwrites the beginning of the hard drive and displays a message in Taiwanese. After this the machine freezes, with music still playing.