Vbasic Famil
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Vbasic Family
These are nonmemory resident dangerous viruses. They search for COM and EXE files and write themselves to the end of the file. Sometimes they erase the CMOS and the MBR of the hard drive. The viruses reportedly disinfect Pakistani Brain virus.
These viruses contain the text string:
KEYB*.COM KEYB*.EXE BASRUN BRUN COBRUN NET$OS *.COM IBMBIO.COM IBMDOS.COM
COMMAND.COM *.* .. \ .. *.EXE Access denied. *.EXE
Some versions of “Vbasic” sometimes display the message “ACCESS Denied” and return to DOS.
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