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     Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
     Future Disaster Virus
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     Name         : Future Disaster

     Aliases      : -

     Clones       : -

     Type         : Bootblock
     
     Size         : 1024 bytes

     Symptoms     : No Symptoms

     Discovered   : 17 july 1991

     Way to infect: Boot infection

     Rating       : Dangerous

     Kickstarts   : 1.2 (only)

     Damage       : Overwrites boot + Rootblock

     Visible text : You can't read any texts in the bootblock    

     Comments     : If  you  are  booting  with a Future-Disaster infected
                    disk  the  virus  copies  itself  to  a memory-address
                    => $7FB00. Then the virus patches the BeginIO()-Vector
                    from the trackdisk.device.

                    This  patch isn`t used to infect disks, but to install
                    a  new patch in the DoIO()-Vector which is now used to
                    infect disks. Additionally the virus changes the Cool-
                    Capture-Vector to stay resdient.

                    After  the  7.th   infection  the  virus  destroys the
                    Rootblock  of  the disk + 55808 bytes behind block 880
                    (Rootblocktrack  79,  the surface in cylinder 40 which
                    contains  the  rootblock ).  Then  it installs memory-
                    gabrage in the bootblock (from address $10000). Such a
                    disk cannot be "healed".

     Removal      : Kickstart 1.2 & 1.3 : VT-Schutz v3.17
                    Kickstart all others: VirusZ III, and also Xvs.library must be installed

     Test made by : Safe Hex International
     
     
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