Name : Future Disaster Aliases : No Aliases Type/Size : Boot/1024 Clones : No Clones Symptoms : No Symptoms Discovered : 17-07-91 Way to infect: Boot infection Rating : Dangerous Kickstarts : Only 1.2 Damage : Overwrites boot + Rootblock. Removal : Install boot. Comments : If you are booting with a Future-Disaster infected disk the virus copies itself to a memory-address => $7FB00. Then the virus patches the BeginIO()-Vector from the trackdisk.device. This patch isn`t used to infect disks, but to install a new patch in the DoIO()-Vector which is now used to infect disks. Additionally the virus changes the Cool- Capture-Vector to stay resdient. After the 7.th infection the virus destroys the Rootblock of the disk + 55808 bytes behind block 880 (Rootblocktrack 79, the surface in cylinder 40 which contains the rootblock ). Then it installs memory- gabrage in the bootblock (from address $10000). Such a disk cannot be "healed". You cannot read any texts in the bootblock. SHI - A.D 05-94 [Go back]