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    Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
    Gaddafi 2 Virus
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     Name         : Gadaffi 2

     Aliases      : No Aliases

     Type         : Bootblick

     Size         : 1024 bytes

     Clones       : -

     Symptoms     : No Symptoms

     Discovered   : 03-04-91

     Way to infect: Boot infection

     Rating       : Dangerous

     Kickstarts   : -

     Damage       : Overwrites boot

     Removal      : Install boot

     Comments     : The  virus  uses the coolcapture and the kick vectores
                    to stay resident in memory.

                    The  Gadaffi  virus has a counter which after the 7.th
                    reset  abuses the drive engine  through  stepping, and
                    this can scratch the diskette  so it is then unusable.
                    Some generates some noice on the speakers,- this is
                    much  more  like  the  behavior  of  Byte Bandit,  but
                    mostly it steps the drive  because of wrong access  to
                    trackdisk.device  by inserting  another disk in drive.

     Antivirus    : Kickstart 1.2 & 1.3..... : VT-Schutz
                    Kickstart 2.0 and higher : VirusZ III, with the new Xvs.library installed

     Test made by : Safe Hex International

     Ascii of Gadaffi 2 virus:
     

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