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From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M.Chess)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: re: Virus Query (PC)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 14:40:23 GMT
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Dave Goodwin <GOODWIN@SMCVAX.BITNET> asks about side-effects of the
Dark Avenger virus.  It's a potentially rather nasty one; on something
like every 16th execution of an infected program, a more-or-less
random sector on the disk is overwritten with 512 bytes of garbage
beginning with the string "Eddie lives".  You might want to use some
sector-string-search program to look for that string...  DC