Synonyms: Bouncing Ball, Vera Cruz, Ping-Pong-B, Bouncing Dot.
Host Machine: PC compatibles.
Host Files: Remains resident. Infects floppy and hard disk boot sectors.
(The original infected only floppy disks).
Increase in Size of Infected Files: n/a.
Nature of Damage: Affects system run-time operation. Corrupts program or
overlay files.
Detected by: Scanv56+, F-Prot, IBM Scan, Pro-Scan.
Removed by: CleanUp, MDisk, F-Prot, or DOS SYS command.
Derived from: Italian.
This is a variation of Italian that is able to infect hard disks.
Some of the characteristics are:
* Fairly long time before activation (a number of minutes at least)
* It displays a ball character, not the Diamond Character
* Once activated, the ball bounces around the screen until the system
is shut off.
* Formatted system & non-system disks are infected and have the one bad
spot created by the virus.
* When a user attempts to format the hard disk, format scans the disk OK
and then reports that track 0 is bad.
* Formatted system floppy disks tend to lock up the PC on boot, and warm
reboot doesn't work.
* The main problem is re-infection and spreading to other machines.
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