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Unexpected Response

Possible Infectors

36146.txt file on desktop Bifrose.BGE
Anti-US slogans are on my screen Caligula
BIOS/CMOS settings changed to 'no hard drive' Melissa.ac
Boot Sectors:

computer will not boot

 

New Love, Totilix

information has changed

boot virus, Stoned

locks when I try to boot and a single character is displayed

French Boot

will not boot

Anticmos, Dodgy, Emperor, Mypics.worm

very subtle random swapping of two words

Jack the Ripper

Win XP reboots

Mblast
Browser will not display major search engines:

Alta Vista.com
Google.com
Lycos.com
MSN.com
Yahoo.com

 

Delude.A

Browser start page changed to:

"geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8279/"
"google.com"
freedonation.com
de_isp.nl
sureseeker.com

 

Mypics.worm
Delude.B
Cuerpo
Creepy
Sure Seeker

Browser windows made difficult or impossible to close NoClose
Clean boot disk doesn't recognize partitions or Invalid drive specifications Monkey
CMOS:  

configuration information is gone

Anticmos

information has changed

boot virus
Computer:  

"beeps"

Bablas, Vacsina

backlight goes on and off to drain battery

Lights

is gradually slowing down

boot virus

is playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Vacsina

is playing hymn of former Soviet Union

Zhymn

is sounding alarms

Alarm

Fireworks displayed on screen

Happy 99

"hangs"

Frodo, Parity Boot

insists on closing the document I am using

Alien

displays picture of a peach

Prune
Data changed after I  pressed "Ctrl-Alt-Del" AntiCAD
Data-Corrupt Andryushka
Data (all) lost in Win 95 & 98 CIH
Data overwritten for files with .doc, .xls, .ppt, .asm, .cpp, .c, .h extensions ExploreZip_E
Data overwritten on local and network files on July 6. Klez_E
Date of some files is 100 years ahead Apocalipse
Date changed to 04-08-1981 Numgame
Documents are posted at a usenet/newsgroup board Poly Poster
Email:  

was sent in my name from my computer to:  babylonia_counter@hotmial.com
MAILME@SUPER.NET.PH


Babylonia
Love Letter

sends 'Happy Birthday' email to address books between July 11 and 31

Win Ext

from bill@microsoft.com

Sobig.C
.EXE file will not execute or copy clearly CMOS4
Files added:  
                   to C:\Windows\Favorites\Lucky2000.URL Lucky

to C:\Windows\Favorites\SEXXX. Teen
\Make BIG Money
\6544 Search Engine Submissions

Fortnight
Flash BIOS corrupt Kriz
Floppy and ROM drives are not recognized Int40
Repeatedly opens the CD/DVD door Agent.DPL
German macros programs are suddenly different Schuman
Hard Drive:  

allows unauthorized access to C:\

Silver, trojans

computer shuts down when date is Dec 1, 2004 or later.

MyDoom.AC

data gone on all hard drives

Smash

can not access

Baboon

files deleting

Yarner

autoexec has changed

Friend Mess

autoexec.bat is replaced with 
"This should be your Autoexec file. . ."

Cartman

"vine. . .vide. . .vice. . .Moslem Power Never End. ."

Cybernet

"Your Computer is NOT Y2K Compliant! Sorry..."

Fool

c:\ data deleted

Backhand, Inst 98, San, Totilix

files deleted on c:\, a:\, b:\, d:\

Simpsons

windows is deleting

Feliz

data rewritten

CIH, ExploreZip_E, Kriz

is destroyed

Anthrax, AntiMIT, Sux

reformatted itself

Black Monday, DrWhite, Fall, Junkie, Kill Once, Lenni, Mypics.worm, Prilissa, Redesi

pretending to format C:\

Fake

owner info is replaced with:
"Some fool owns this thing"
"CyberWolf"
"Indonesian Today"

"You are a victim of the World Trade Center"


Bad Info
Cydog
Terrosist

Vote.K

Key sequence "ALT-F11" disabled Chack
Keyboard "clicks" when key is pressed Form
Keyboard keys display different characters Michael
Macro Toolbar Menu:  

is gone

Alien, AntiSR1

is hidden

Chack

will not respond

Caligula, Cap, Share Fun

password needed to access

Protect

password needed to save document

Protect
Macro Security in MS Word 2000 disabled Melissa
Mouse cursor looks like a syringe Harry
Mouse cursor in Windows looks like a red cross Armagid
MS Office 97 Access Database is doing strange things Accessiv
MS Windows 95/98 shut down Kak
MS Windows will not boot FF
Partition is scrambled boot virus
Ports  

COM1 & LPT1 suddenly do not work

Azusa
Printer added to the end of my document:  

"And finally I would like to say: STOP ALL FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE PACIFIC"

Nuclear

picture of a woman at the end of my Word 97 document

Hubad
Programs:  

are deleting when executed

Jerusalem

already destroyed begin with "@AIDS"

Vienna
Screen:  

desktop wallpaper changed to pornographic scene

Bearded

flashing document files

Green Stripe

has "falling" characters
black square bounces around screen

Fall
Alone

blank when computer is turned on
blank when computer is turned on and A:\ is not accessible with possible system freeze

CIH, Dodgy

QZap160

has a black rectangle
has blue icon in system tray

Jerusalem
Navidad

shakes
flashes insulting messages
makes alarm sounds

Palm OS show a dark gray box

Praque,Yaha_E
Ghost
Alarm

Phage

"squeezed" every couple of hours

Alex
Screen has moving objects:  

ambulance with siren

Ambulance

one or more red crosses in white circle

Marburg

green caterpillar

Green Caterpillar
System date changed to January 1, 1980 Backhand.A
System files are disappearing Always, Friend Mess
Text is inserted into document:  

"Make me better! The Bad Boy virus."

Bad Boy

"Hint:  Get Norton 2000 not McAfee 4.02"

Melissa-V

the word "its" replaced with "it's" in documents

Green Stripe

as footer line:  "J972/nagvZNEP ol Ybeg Angnf [Pbqroernxref 98]"

AntiMARC

"***k you & shave your mama p*****."

Melissa-Y

"HOLA SOY NICOLE"

Destino

"Kesseler Word 97 Macro"

Passbox

"Loading. . .No"

Melissa-U

"This ain't a new virus. . .it's my new game, ***hole!"

Melissa-Y

"Vaccination to get rid of the Night Shade word macro. . ."

Laroux.BP

"Works in Word 2000, Word 97 & your f***en ***!"

Melissa-Y

"Worm?Macro Virus?Word 97 Virus? Word 2000 Virus? You Decide"

Melissa-Y

Text appears on screen:

 

"A kuku, Nestephy komornik!!"

Akuku

"Alert..!! Your Pc have a serious problem with the Year 2000"

Lenni

"Alfons! Synchronizing Drive c: (Do not interrupt this operation!):  100% Done."

Alfons

"ALPHA STRIKE Advanced Tactical Viral Implant by NEUROBASHER '93/ Germany"

Alpha Strike

"[Alphabetic.A (c) Alpha 1994.]"

Alphabet

"And Hope You'll Learn from It Too"

Michael

"[Anna] Slartibartfast, ARCV NukE the French. Have a cool. . ."

Anna

"Anxiety.Poppy.II by VicodinES. . ."

Anxiety

"Any Problem? Call Mr.BoND, OkEmi  ThanK U"

Bond

"April 1st HA HA HA You Have A Virus"

AntiD

"Arf! Arf! Got you!"

Vienna

"Arusiek"

Arusiek

"AVALANCHE/Germany '94. . .MetalJunkie greets Neurobasher"

Avalanche

"Bloody! June 4, 1989"

Stoned

"Bpp Hacker is now activating"

Praque

"Campana Anti-TELEFONICA (Barcelona)

Spanish Trojan

"Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive. If this file is part of a zip format backup set, insert the last disk of the backup set and try again. Please press F1 for help."

Explore Zip

"Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive. If you download this file, try downloading the file again."

Cholera

"Chantal 4ever!"

Chantal_A

"CMOS Checksum Invalid"

Mypics.worm

"Configuration conflict - menu item is not available"

Switchr

"Could not attack" (a file name)

Trojan.Attack

displayed scrolling in MS Word Status Bar:  "DOEUNPAD94, v.2.21, (c)Maret1996, Bandung, Indonesia"

Npad

displays message referring to University of East Manilla

Sampo

"Destroyed by Vienna. Reboot"

Vienna

"DOS/46W Professional Protected Mode Run. . ."

Always.2000

"Driver Memory Error! Kagoo-Anti-Kro$oft says not today!"

Kak

"Eddie lives. . .somewhere in time."

Dark Avenger

"Error54: Media Player not installed correctly"

Lilac

"Fatal Error in Windows Kernell
Please allow a 10 MINUTEs acces. . ."

Cydog

"FRODO LIVES"

Frodo

"Happy Birthday, Joshi"

Joshi

"Happy Birthday Shankar" (big green letters)

Marker.O

"Have a nice day! It's Friday 13th! This is my lucky day, I hope it's yours too!"

Backhand

"HDEuthanasia by Demon Emperor. . ."

Hare

"Hello!!! My name is Andryushka. I come from Perm, USSR."

Andryushka

"Hi! laurie lantar lassi surimen!. . ."

Galadriel

"HUM4N GOD THA7 WAS MAN-MADE WH3RE 1s YOUR SAVIOR NOW"

Savior

"I am Li Xibin"

Anticmos

"I'm not feeling very well. . .AAARGHH!!!"

Argh

"I want a COOKIE!"

Sys Lock

"I will grind my hatred upon the loved ones. . ."

Emperor

(user) "is a Big, Stupid Jerk"

Jerk

"&quot, It's GROOVIE""

Groovie

"Jane!  Jane!  Jane!" in endless loop

Melissa.Z

"Loader Error - API not found!"

Babylonia

"Look out for the RENAME-PROBLEM!"

Breeder

"Lord of the Rings" related text

Frodo

"Macro virus has been spread. Now execute some other code (good, bad, or indifferent)."

DMV

"Mark says ChantalB.4ever!"

Chantal_A

"message from "www.all.net"

Jerk

"Michael Learns to Hack"

Michael

"Microsoft Excel has detected a corrupted add-in file. Click 'OK' to repair this file."

Sofa

"Millenium Virus"

Lenni

"MK-Words by MMK 1999. Welcome to Y2K."

Mmkv

"NAENBGOURSG  Hello from Greece"

Angus

"Nesedte porad. . ."

Helloween

"Nightbird goes, Along with the Queen. . ."

Nightbird

"No code too see! (typo)"

Jany 2000

"Out of Memory Error. Please reboot."

Trojan.Attack

"PARITY CHECK"

Parity Boot

"Program sick error: Call doctor or buy PIXEL for cure description."

Amstrad

"Red State, Germ Offensive, AIRCOP"

Aircop

"Requires More Memory To Run"

Trojan.Attack

"R.SY"

Alcon

"Software copies prohibited by Internatonal Law Box 1055 Tuscambia, Alabama  USA"

Alabama

"Sorry. I'm copmpletely dead."

Copmp

"Sorry. . .MIMIR has infected your PC. . ."

Mimir

"Strange Days by Reptile/29A"

Strange Days

"System error, delete "UPDATE.HTM" from the startup folder to solve this problem."

Bubble Boy

"T. Tequila" and a Swiss P.O. Box #

Tequila

Thank You! I Love You. You are Wonderful."

Marker.O

"Thank's for joining with us! ""

Rapi

"The technology will be kill humaneness."

Arbeit

"This is a vaccination response to the Night Shade Word Macro. . ."

Laroux.BP

"This is Class. . . VicodinES. . ./CB. . ./TNN"

Class

"This item is not available. Please insert the MS Office CD and install the help files to continue."

Talon

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

Class.ed

title of File Summary box displays "Ethan Frome"

Ethan

"TOTILIX Presents. . .
This >TOTILIX<Virus was assembled. . ."

Oporto 3078

"Traveller (c) BUPT 1991.4 Don't Panic  I'm harmless"

Bupt

"Updating! This may take a while. . .Please Wait. . ."

Reizfactor

"Virus Alert" (appears when you load a page on the internet)

Crackbox

"Virus Warning! Your computer has been infected by virus. Virus name is 'SMASH',". . ."


Smash

"(c) 1999-CyberNET  Vire. . . Vide. . . Vice. . . You Dare Rise Against Me. . . The Human Era is Over the CyberNET Era has come!!!  [OK]"

Prilissa

"Water was detected in your microprocessor. The functioning may be compromised! It is recommended to shut down the computer a few hours to get dry!"

Alexander

"Welcome to BUPT 9146, Beijing!"

Welcomb

"Windows NT required! This program will be terminated."

Babylonia

"Windows Protection Error"

Niknat

"You are Heart Less. You will be punished for this."

Marker.O

"You have been bearded."
"You will not forget this moment. Never!"

Bearded
Forgoten

"Your computer is now stoned."

Stoned

"Your document has been corrupted because of a bug in Word! Call Microsoft. . ."

Backhand.A

"Your Internet Connection is already Y2K, you don't need to upgrade it."

Fix 2001

"Your PC is now STONED!"

New Zealand

"Your System is infected with the Macro Virus Talon #1"

Talon
"Zacker

No Peace without war,i hate war but i'm forced to love it. Hiiden Power's gonna b there wherever u r

Galil
Text appears on screen but these indicate that BIOS is alright but hard drive data is gone.  

"boot error message"

CIH

"error
Application initilisation error"

Yaha_J

"error in CMOS"

Emperor

"insert bootable media"

CIH

"insert system disk"

CIH

"non-sytem disk or disk error"

WYX, BootEXE

"Halt the PC and erase all files on the hard disk"

Dodgy

"parity check"

Parity Boot

"parity error"

Amstrad

Tools Macro in Word 97 disabled

Melissa
Tools/Macro and Tools/Options menus are gone Hope, Michael

Windows:

 

Program Manager is hidden

Alien

Computer insists on closing Windows
Username changed to 'Evil Santa'
Username changed to 'alcopauls.ph'

Alien
Mill
Alcarys

Word insertion in macros document

 

sattelite

Sattelite v1.5

wazzu

Wazzu

'file properties summary' information at end of document is changed

Marker
Wallpaper is of a naked girl Niknat
Word 97 font changed to:  
                                  Webdings Marker.AQ
Word 97 user addresss changed to:  
                                 JonMMx2000@yahoo.com Marker.BO
Word 97 user choices deleted:  

Close, Exit, New, Open, Page Setup, Print, Print Preview

Class.ed

Word 97 user name changed to:
Ginseng Boy 2000


Jer

I lovel You, Min

Jer

                                  JonMMx2000

Marker.BO

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Arbeit

 

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