UVD - The Virus Encyclopedia

UVD

UVD

Type	Virus Generator
Creator	Lucky Lady
Date Discovered	06-OCT-1994
Place of Origin	Slovenia
Source Language
Platform	Atari ST
Reported Costs

UVD or "Ultimate Virus Designer" is a family of viruses generated from a virus generator. It was coded by Lucky Lady in Slovenia in 1994 and appeard on the "Industrially Safe Demodisk # 15" released in the next year.

Behavior

The behavior of UVD varies depending on what options the person using the generator has chosen. It is always memory resident, hooking Hdv_bpb or hdv_mediach, and always infects boot sectors on floppy drives A: and B:, but never the hard drive. Disks cannot be ummunized against it.

The author of UVD claimed almost 200 different version of the virus are possible depending on waht parameters are chosen. Whether it is reset-proof depends on user options. The user may also choose to have the virus display texts. On a mononchrome 70 hz screen, this will take place after 45 minutes and on a 50 hz color screen, it will be 65 minutes. There is also anm option to make it lock up the system after displaying the text. Other options include "offset", "hide behind MS-DOS header yes/no", "location in memory", "attach to hdv_bpb or hdv_mediach" as well as two different destruction routines or no destruction routine.

Origin

UVD was coded by Lucky Lady of the Slovenian Stonewashing Organisation, a prominent coder of programs for the Atari ST, both self-replicating and not from Slovenia in the early and mid 1990s. It was included on the "Industrially Safe Demodisk # 15" released in June of 1995 along with some other programs.