Ohio Virus

Virus Name: Ohio Aliases: V Status: Common Discovered: June, 1988 Symptoms: BSC; resident-TOM Origin: Indonesia Eff Length: N/A Type Code: RtF - Resident Floppy Boot Sector Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, AVTK, NAV, Sweep, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV Removal Instructions: MDisk, F-Prot, or DOS SYS command General Comments: The Ohio virus is a memory-resident, boot sector infector, only infecting 360K floppy disks. The Ohio virus is similar in many respects to the Den Zuk virus, and is believed to possibly be the earlier version of Den Zuk. A diskette infected with Ohio will be immune to infection by the Pakistani Brain virus. The following text strings appear in the Ohio virus: "V I R U S b y The Hackers Y C 1 E R P D E N Z U K 0 Bandung 40254 Indonesia (C) 1988, The Hackers Team...." See: Den Zuk