deathrider.72
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Deathrider.729
This is a dangerous, non-memory resident overwriting virus. It searches for .COM- and .EXE-files of the current directory (by using masks *.COM *.EXE) and overwrites them. The length of the infected files grows by 39 bytes. On the 8th of every month, it types the following message:
------* DeathRider Virus version 1.8 *------
(c) 1993 DeathRider - Pretoria - South Africa
and then formats HD sectors and erases CMOS memory. On other days, it types one of the following messages:
Packed File Corrupt
Sharing violation
Required system component not installed
and returns to DOS. It also contains the internal text: "ViRuZZ ".
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