Name         : Excrement

     Aliases      : Probably none

     Type/Size    : Bootblock, 1024 bytes (two blocks, 0,1 )

     Clone        : Sentinel

     Symptoms     : Light diodes start blinking

     Discovered   : Not elucidated

     Way to infect: Infects  every  none write-protected disk

     Rating       : Harmless

     Kickstarts   : 1.2, 1.3, 2.0

     Damage       : None

     Manifestation: In the bootblock you can read: ary.EXCREMENT.-.

     Removal      : Reinstall the disk.

     Comments     : The  Excrement-Virus  uses  the  coolcapture-vector to
                    stay  resident  in memory.  Further the virus uses the
                    DoIO()-Vector  from  the  EXEC.library to infect other
                    disks.  The  virus  copies  itself  always to the same
                    memory-adress ($7f400).

                    Depending of infections the POWER-LED begins to flash.



     SHI - TBH 04-94

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