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terminator.349

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Terminator.3490

It's a dangerous memory resident multipartite encrypted virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself at the end of COM- (except COMMAND.COM) and EXE-files are accessed. Sometimes it fills the disk sectors by string "TERMINATED".
It tries to infect disk boot-sectors, but it contains error and fails. This virus contains the internal text strings:
THE TERMINATOR
TERMINATED
COMMAND.COM
Non-system disk or disk error
Replace and strike any key when ready
Disk boot failure
The TERMINATOR -- Boot virus version.
Released 15 May 5-15-91, 7.15 pm
.COM .EXE
The TERMINATOR -- Full virus version.
Released 15 May 5-15-91, 7.15 pm