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of Minnesota in August, 1989.
nFLU is yet another simple clone of nVIR B, discovered at the University
Belgium in April, 1989.
MEV# is yet another simple clone of nVIR B. It was first discovered in
Hpat, AIDS is a simple clone of nVIR B.
The AIDS virus was first discovered in Holland in March, 1989. As with
technical differences, it is identical to nVIR B.
The Hpat virus was first discovered in late 1988. Except for a few minor
is enough to cause problems.
As with Scores, nVIR occupies both memory and disk space, and this alone
type ΓÇ£nVIR,ΓÇ¥ which is how it got its name.
One of the viral resources added to infected files by nVIR has the resource
detection tool.
by looking at your system. You must run Disinfectant or some other virus
Unlike Scores, there is no way to tell that you have an nVIR infection just
properly repair them.
that such offspring are infected by both nVIR A and nVIR B, and will
new viruses combining parts of their parents. Disinfectant will report
It is possible for nVIR A and nVIR B to mate and reproduce, resulting in
program is run with a probability of 1/64.
run with a probability of 7/32. A double beep will happen when an infected
probability of 1/8. A single beep will happen when an infected program is
not call MacinTalk. The beep will happen on a system startup with a
When the counter reaches zero, nVIR B will sometimes beep. nVIR B does
or beep twice with a probability of 1/256.
when an infected application is run, nVIR A may say ΓÇ£donΓÇÖt panicΓÇ¥ twice
probability of 15/128, when an infected application is run. In addition,
system startup with a probability of 1/16. It will also happen, with a
MacinTalk is not installed in the system folder). This will happen on
panicΓÇ¥ (if MacinTalk is installed in the system folder) or beep (if
When the counter reaches zero, nVIR A will sometimes either say ΓÇ£donΓÇÖt
time an infected application is run.
one each time the system is started up and it is decremented by two each
infected, a counter is initialized to 1000. The counter is decremented by
At first nVIR A and B only replicate. When the System file is first
files are not infected or modified.
the Finder and DA Handler usually also become infected, and document
minute delay. As with Scores, some programs are immune to infection,
application is run, it becomes infected immediately, without the 2-3
applications immediately, without the 2 day delay. Whenever a new
does not create any invisible files. nVIR begins spreading to other
System file, but it does not infect the Note Pad or Scrapbook files, and it
nVIR is simpler than Scores. When it attacks your system, it infects the
ΓÇ£nFLU.ΓÇ¥
and ΓÇ£nVIR B,ΓÇ¥ and four clones named ΓÇ£Hpat,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£AIDS,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£MEV#ΓÇ¥ and
virus was written. We know of two basic strains, which we call ΓÇ£nVIR AΓÇ¥
1987, and in the United States in early 1988. At least one variation of the
According to news reports, the nVIR virus first appeared in Europe in
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The nVIR Virus