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CaroNameFrankenstein
Info(Txt) "Frankenstein's Magic v1.00a (C) CopyLEFT 1992, Megatrends 2000 Corp. The Johan family", and a long "History" of the virus. WARHEAD: Overwrites random disk sectors. Triggered by internal counter. NOTE:The virus zeroes out the partition table in the MBR and stores the original MBR encrypted. The infected drive will be invisible to DOS if the system is booted from an uninfected floppy. Using fdisk /mbr will render the drive unbootable.
Siz2048
MbrYes
HbrNo
BooYes
ComNo
ExeNo
SysNo
CmpNo
OleNo
ResYes
MltNo
SemNo
FulYes
EncYes
PolNo
ArmNo
TunNo
VfxNo
SfxNo
MusNo
MsgNo
TxtYes
TxcNo
WarYes
DamNo
CmoNo
XmbYes
CmdNo
XmdNo
AavNo
DavNo
TavNo
TinNo
BugNo
Frequency5
AliasesFrank, Sblank