Ambulance or Ambulance Car virus (Germany, 1990).
When an infected file is executed, an ASCII ambulance can be seen moving across the screen and a siren start to sound displaying a alert message like : BOOM!. Ambulance is not a destructive virus; it simply spreads itself around and shows off its payload once in a while.
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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.
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.
Triplesix virus aka 666 test (666TEST.ZIP).
This is a worm written in Visual Basic Script language (VBS). This worm spreads via e-mail and IRC channels. Being executed the worm script displays the message:
Does your name add up to 666? This handy little tool will tell you what your name adds up to in ASCII characters (without including spaces and without converting numbers to ASCII). It is just for fun, it does not mean you are going to go to hell if you get a 666. You should probably read the bible if you are concerned about that.
Then it asks user for names and counting sum of ASCII codes of characters in entered text:
Does your name add up to 666? Enter your name. Also try names from your family and friends. And if you want something interesting try BILL GATES 3 (Bill’s real name is Bill Gates the third) and HOLY BIBLE. Press Cancel or Ok without entering any name to exit.
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.