Chaos Virus

Virus Name: Chaos Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: December, 1989 Symptoms: Message; TSR; bad sectors; BSC Origin: England Eff Length: N/A Type Code: BR - Resident Boot Sector Infector Detection Method: [Not in Certification Set] Removal Instructions: MDisk, or DOS SYS command General Comments: First reported in December, 1989 by James Berry of Kent, England, the Chaos virus is a memory resident boot sector infector of floppy and hard disks. When the Chaos virus infects a boot sector, it overwrites the original boot sector without copying it to another location on the disk. Infected boot sectors will contain the following messages: "Welcome to the New Dungeon" "Chaos" "Letz be cool guys" The Chaos virus will flag the disk as being full of bad sectors upon activation, though most of the supposed bad sectors are still readable. It is unknown what the activation criteria is.