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                            VIRUS REPORT         
                            Devil's Dance        
                    

Synonyms: Mexican virus

Date of Origin: December, 1989.

Place of Origin: Reported by Mau Fragoso of Mexico City.

Host Machine: PC compatibles.

Host Files: Remains resident, infects COM files.

OnScreen Symptoms: After a warm reboot, you will see the message "DID YOU
EVER DANCE WITH THE DEVIL IN THE WEAK MOONLIGHT? PRAY FOR YOUR DISKS!!
The Joker" Also, after your first 2,000 keystrokes, screen colors will
begin to change.

Increase in Size of Infected Files: 941 bytes.

Nature of Damage: Corrupts data files, program or overlay files, affects
system run-time operation, corrupts file linkage.

Detected by: Scanv52+.

Removed by: CleanUp, Scan/D, or delete infected files.

     This virus will infect a file multiple times until the file becomes
too large to fit in available memory. Once an infected program has been
run, any subsequent warm boot (CTRL-ALT-DEL) will result in the message
noted above.

     The Devil's Dance virus is destructive.

*   After the first 2,000 keystrokes, the virus starts changing the
    colors of text displayed on the monitor.

*   After the first 5,000 keystrokes, the virus erases the first copy of
    the FAT. At this point, whenever the system is rebooted, it will
    display the message above, destroy the first copy of the FAT, then
    proceed with the boot process.


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