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Empire.Monkey.B
This is a common virus.
Aliases: Monkey 2
Size: 512 bytes
Frequency: 20
Characteristics:
- Infects MBR
- Infects diskette boot record
- Memory resident
- Full stealth
- Encrypted (code and data)
- Makes MBR inaccessible
Information:
The virus overwrites the partition table in the MBR and stores the original MBR encrypted. The infected drive will be invisible to DOS if the system is booted from an uninfected floppy. Using fdisk /mbr will render the drive unbootable.
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