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AntiEXE virus

By Mary Landesman, About.com

Name:
AntiEXE
Also known as:
D3, NewBug, Anti-Exe, BootDr79, NC-Boot
Type:
Boot sector MBR Stealth virus
Affects:
PCs
Discovered:
1995
Description:
Common boot sector virus affecting both hard drives and floppy disks. Spread by booting from infected floppy diskette. Diskettes used in the infected machine will likely become infected as well. Uses stealth techniques to hide its presence in the boot sector. Tries to thwart standard behavior-blockers by redirected BIOS disk interrupt 13h to interrupt D3h instead.
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