Name : Crime! Aliases : No Aliases Type/Size : Link/1000 Clones : No Clones Symptoms : No Symptoms Discovered : 22-05-92 Way to infect: Link infection Rating : Less Dangerous Kickstarts : 1.2/1.3 Damage : No Damage. Removal : Use viruskiller. Comments : The Crime virus is a very simple link-virus. The virus copies itself always to the same memory-address $7DC00. For infection the virus patches the Open(); LoadSeg()-Vectors from the dos.library and additional- ly a vector from the GlobalVectorTable (Dosbase +$2E). A new patch will be installed in the Allocmem()-Vector from the exec.library which sets always the above mentioned dos-vector to the virusvalue. The virus uses the CoolCapture-Vector to stay resident in the memory. The virus infects files by linking itself behind the 1st hunk of the file. In this hunk the virus searches for a RTS. If a RTS was found the virus repalces the RTS with BRA.S (To make sure that the virus will be activated!). The virus only infects files which are: - executeable - smaller than 100000 bytes - don`t have "#"; "*"; "-"; "?"; in their names. There is a crypted text in the file, decrypted you can read: "Crime!" A.D 04-94