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Sampo

This is a benign memory resident boot virus. It hooks INT 9 and 13h and writes itself into the MBR of the hard drive and floppy boot sectors. It intercepts when Alt-Ctrl-Del are clicked on, emulates rebooting and stays memory resident. In some cases, it drops the "Telefonica.3700" boot virus. On November 30, it hooks INT 8 also, and displays the following message:
+--------------------------+
S A M P O
"Project X"
Copyright (c)1991 by the
SAMPO X-Team. All rights
reserved.
University Of The East
Manila
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Updated: 02/24/2006
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