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basilisk.163

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Basilisk.1639

It's a not dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic virus. It is a variant of the Eddie viruses. It hooks INT 21h, 27h and writes itself at the end of COM- and EXE-files. On execution of SCAN*.* program it types "Packed file is corrupt" and returns to DOS. It also contains the internal text strings:
Basilisk v1.0
(c) 1992 YAM/RABID International
The slave thinks he is released from bondage
only to find a stronger set of chains

Updated: 02/24/2006
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