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Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Graffiti Virus
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Name : Graffiti
Aliases : 16bit Grafitti
Type : Bootblock
Size : 1024 bytes
Incidence : No Incidence
Discovered : 27 july 1987
Way to infect: See below
Rating : Not very dangerous
Kickstarts : 1.2
1.3
2.0
3.0
Damage : Overwrites bootblock
Manifestation: DisplayAlert
Visible text : A M A virus written by Graffiti
Comments : This is a demo with rotating 3-D graphics. After
a number of reboots a black screen with 'AMA' in
large red vector graphics is rotating.
In some copies the Amiga LED will flash 30 times
simultaneuously while the above display alert pop up.
The counter is definitely increased so the demo will
run after this number of reboots during every new
reboot.
In the Graffiti bootblock you can read VIRUS! written
by Graffiti in ASC II text. After infection you will
get the following DisplayAlert:
"A M A virus written by Graffiti"
Removal : Kickstart 1.2 & 1.3 : VT-Schutz v3.17
Kickstart all others: VirusZ III with Xvs.library installed
Test made by : Safe Hex International
Animated picture of the Graffiti Virus:
Ascii of Graffiti virus: