[Malmsey Habitat v3.á] by Lucifer Messiah -- ANARKICK SYSTEMS Released: Jan 20, 1993 This is a resident COM and EXE infector. The virus goes through extensive measures to ensure that it won't be debugged. The technology I used has never been used in another virus except Malmsey ][b, although it will probably appear in most of my future viruses. The encryption is basic as hell because I didn't feel like wasting time and energy on it. I had a better one on it before, but opted for fewer bytes. I don't see much worth in going too far with the encryption engine, as they are all easy to crack anyhow. My virus, however, will not be so easy. I suppose you could do it byte by byte, by hand if you really wanted to know what I was up to. There is a 1/30 chance that the virus will "go off" when the virus goes resident. I have omitted the face routine that appeared in versions I, ][, and ][b, not because of the virus length, but because it was becomming a hassle trying to get the text and certain parts of the face to print out properly. If I get that problem fixed, I will release a full version of Malmsey Habitat v3.0. This virus is not scannable up to SCAN v99. I haven't yet had a chance to try v100. In the making right now is Malmsey Habitat IV. Like version ]I[, It is going to be using a technology that isn't used anywhere else. Your worst enemy will be McFly's CLEAN, and other similar products. I have found a way to make CLEAN more dangerous than the virus itself! You will be pleased. Look forward to that, and another which will be out in a few months, called HAL-9000. In principal it is like the DIR ][ virus in that it infects the FAT and Directory, but HAL-9000 is totally different, and won't lock up under DOS 5 like DIR ][ does. Lucifer Messiah -- ANARKICK SYSTEMS