Name : Lame Blame Aliases : Taipan Lame Blanme Type/Size : Boot/1024 Clones : Cheater Hi Jacker Symptoms : No Symptoms Discovered : 17-07-91 Way to infect: Boot infection Rating : Harmless Kickstarts : 1.2/1.3/2.0 Damage : Overwrites boot. Removal : Install boot. Comments : The LameBlame virus allocates CHIP-Memory for it`s location. After Copying the virus into this AREA it patches the CoolCapture vector and the DoIO() to infect other disks. The whole virusbootblock will be crypted by an byte depending of $dff006 so you can`t read any texts in the bootblock. The virus isn`t dangerous for HD-Users because it tests for the trackdisk.device. After every 8th Alert the virus gives ount an ALERT: "LameBlame! by Tai-Pan - Nimber of Copys:0002" SHI - A.D 08-94 [Go back]