Flyingchimp
Flying Chimp | |
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Type | Boot sector virus |
Creator | |
Date Discovered | 15-DEC-1990 |
Place of Origin | United States |
Source Language | |
Platform | Atari ST |
Infection Length | 1 boot sector |
Reported Costs |
Flying Chimp, also known as Waldo, is an Atari ST virus from 1990. When a floppy in Drive A: is booted, it becomes memory resident. It hooks the Hdv_bpb vector allowing it access to other disks in drive A:. It infects floppy disks as they are accessed. It will not survive a reset and does not attach itself to hard disks. After every 5 successful infections or 20 bootsector accesses, the virus displays the following message on the screen: "Zapped by Waldo the Flying Chimp!".
Sources
Richard Karsmakers. THE KNOWN VIRUSES ON ATARI TOS COMPUTERS AND THEIR SYMPTOMS.