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Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Warhawk Virus
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Name : Warhawk
Aliases : No Aliases
Clones : Starlight II, Indiana Jones and many more...
Type : Bootblock
Size : 1024 bytes
Symptoms : No Symptoms
Discovered : 7 february 1992
Way to infect: Boot infection
Rating : Harmless
Kickstarts : 1.2
1.3
2.0
Damage : Overwrites boot
Comments : The Warhawk-Virus copies itself to address $7E600. To
stay resident in memory the virus patches the
CoolCapture-Vector. After the next reset the virus
additionally patches the DoIO()-Vector to infect
other disks.
After the 4.th infection the virus gives out a (very
nice-looking) GFX-Message. In the middle of the screen
scrolls the following little message and behind the
scroll there are some color-scrolls too:
"WARHAWK SAYS: KILLING YOUR DISKS WITH OUR VIRUS IS"
"A WONDERFUL THING! CONTACT: UCS, PLK 000257-A"
"3457 STADTOLDENDORF! HEY BAD! FUCK OFF"
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 Warhawk virus:
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