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alien.197

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Alien.1976

This is a dangerous memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself at the end of COM and EXE files that are accessed. It contains the internal text string:
COM EXE com exe OVL
Depending of system time it overwrites the files by strings:
ALIEN 1.3 - The Next Generation written by P.K. on August 93
The virus displays the following:
Look, following file is just eliminated.
There must be ALIEN inside !?

Updated: 02/24/2006
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