On 16/01/2015 18:32, Jax wrote:
[....]
> Mr Anon..... following up one of your posts, I found this article in
> the Virus Bulletin about the Toadie virus. Interesting.
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++ START VB OCT 99 +++++++++++++++++++
> VIRUS BULLETIN.  OCTOBER 1999.  PAGE 3
>
> Sad Spawn
>
> In August, the virus writer known variously as Dustin
> Cook, Raid or Casio released HLL Toadie.7800. This high
> level language (Asic) virus is also a direct action prepender.
>
> Toadie is a DOS-based virus that was designed to infect
> both DOS and Windows executables (the only problem with
> it is that a DOS box will temporarily appear on execution of
> an infected Windows executable). The virus will not infect
> between 3pm and 5pm and infected files will not run
> between 9pm and 12pm. When an infected file is run at 17
> minutes past the hour, the virus will display the message:
>
> TOADiE v1.2 - Raid [SLAM] 
>
> As well as spreading in the ‘normal' manner, the author
> tried to make the virus spread via USENET groups (in the
> form of a cell phone cloner and a generator for adult Web
> site passwords). Similar distribution of a porn list via
> USENET may soon get the Melissa author into trouble.
>
> If the directory C:\MIRC exists then the virus will place a
> copy of itself in it, and drop a SCRIPT.INI file. If Pegasus
> Mail is installed, it will attempt to add a copy of itself as an
> attachment. This procedure is very temperamental and does
> not seem to work in the majority of cases. If the virus is
> spread by one of these methods it will display one of five
> possible messages at the DOS prompt. The messages are
> puerile attempts at humorous poetry.
>
> Unfortunately, this virus is in the wild, having infected the
> Austrian office of a big multinational on its release.
>
> ++++++++++++++++++ END VB OCT 99 +++++++++++++++++++
>
> From.... https://www.virusbtn.com/pdf/magazine/1999/199910.pdf


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