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Dead.257

These are dangerous memory resident parasitic viruses. They trace and hook INT 21h, then they write themselves to the end of COM- and EXE-files that are executed, created, opened or closed. On execution the viruses search for COMMAND.COM file and hit it. The 256th (100h) generation of these viruses erase the C: disk sectors. The viruses contain ID-word DEADh (in hex) and the internal text strings:
COMSPEC=
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Updated: 02/24/2006
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