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Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Sphinx-O Bootvirus
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Name : Sphinx-O
Aliases : No Aliases
Type : Bootblock
Size : 1024 bytes
Symptoms : No Sypmtoms
Discovered : 8 may 2020
Origin : -
Way to infect: Boot infection
Rating : Middel
Kickstarts : 1.3 - Yes
2.0 - Yes
3.1 - Yes
Damage : Overwrites Bootblock
Removal : VirusZ III v1.04ß or higher, and also Xvs.library v33.47 or higher
Symptomatic : dos.library
Information : The checksum changes with each mutation
Comments : cmd read from disk:
cmp.b #2,$1D(A1)
cmd write to disk:
cmp.b #3,$1D(A1)
Visible text : SPHNIX-O-VIRUS by R
Greetings to: SCA-Virus, ByteBandit, ByteWarrior, Lamer
Exterminator, and all other viruses around.
Credit : Thanks to CrashDisk for sending this to Virus Help Team
Test made by : Jan Andersen, Virus Help Team
Ascii of Sphinx-O bootblock virus: