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danny.87

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Danny.872

It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 8, 21h and writes itself to the end of .COM files (except COMMAND.COM) that are executed. If the system date's year is less than 1992, the virus decrypts and displays the message and then halts the computer:
Invalid date. System halted.

On October 17th the virus depending on its internal counter decrypts and displays the message:
Today is Danny's birthday! She is now ?? years old.
Press any key

where 'xx' is a number: current year minus 1973.
The virus also contains the text strings:
[Uni}amp] virus 1992
command.com

Updated: 02/24/2006
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