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From: COS20001@UFRJ.BITNET (Geraldo Xexeo)
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Subject: Virus Report from Brazil
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Date: 29 Aug 89 07:44:26 GMT
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I think that the netland could be interested in a Virus Report
from Brazil. It is important to say that in Brazil there aren't
big networks or lots of Lan's. Most of the virus are distributed
by disks.

Source: O Globo (nation-wide newspaper) from a research of Modulo
Consultants.(21/8/89)

Number of micro-computers researched: 550.

Viruses detected : disease
  Brain, Israely : lost of files
  Ping Pong      : a bouncing ball in the video , no harm
  sUMsDos        : slows machine, uses memory, no harm detected
  Alameda        : harm winchester
  Lehigh         : harm any disks (Why Lehigh?)
  Madonna        : While Madonna sings in your video, you looseyour disk
  Cookie         : Shows "Give me a cookie" in the video
  Water fall     : fallof characters(translated from Cascata)
  Mailson        : inversion of characters in video and printer
                 : named after a Brazilian politician

Number of detections:
  Jan: 2
  Feb: 4
  Mar: 6
  Apr: 12
  May: 22
  Jun: 41
  Jul: 66

Avaliation:
  Most of the virus are harmfull, thenames could not be right but
are the used in Brazil.More than 10% are infected. Exponencial growing.

                  From Brazil,
                              Geraldo Xexeo