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Title: New Link Virus
Post by: System on April 24, 2001, 04:02:44 PM
A new link-virus has been found, the installer is still unknown, we are looking for it. This new virus will add 460 bytes to every file that is opened or executed. That also means that even  an antivirus program (that the virus is unknown to),  will  infect every file it checks for virus. The new virus patches dos.library ExNext function to spread it self.  The new virus  has been given the name "BOBEK", this is the text you can read in the end of every infected tile.

Okay, here is what we know so far:


Archive name : ?

Archive size : ?

Virus name   : BOBEK

Virus size   : 460 bytes

Infection    : dos.library ExNext



At this time no antivirus program can find this new virus,  so take big care out there.  We are right now testing a beta version of the antivirus program VirusExecutor,that will be able to find the virus and to remove it from memory.



If you find or have the installer for this virus, please send it to me.



Thanks to Ingo Foerster for sending the infected files...



Kind regards......



Jan Andersen

Virus Help Denmark

vht-dk@post4.tele.dk (http://mailto:vht-dk@post4.tele.dk)

http://www.vht-dk.dk (http://www.vht-dk.dk)