Badbytes3

Introduction

BadBytes3 is a computer virus written for the Commodore Amiga. It is a clone of the Blackflash virus. Only the texts have been changed. The virus is often also recognized as IQ Breaker virus, but BadBytes3 is more common and also used in VTDok.

For more information go to Blackflash

Summary

For more information go to Blackflash

Details

At the beginning of the bootblock you can read:

0000h: 44 4F 53 00 6C 31 06 C8 00 00 03 70 60 00 00 18 ; DOS.l1.È...p`...
0010h: 20 20 49 51 20 42 72 65 61 6B 65 72 20 76 69 72 ;   IQ Breaker vir
0020h: 75 73 20 20 20 22 0C B9 66 00 00 0E 00 07 F0 30 ; us   ".¹f.....ð0

and at the end of the bootblock:

02f0h: 00 00 45 76 65 72 79 20 31 33 74 68 20 63 6F 70 ; ..Every 13th cop
0300h: 79 20 2D 20 79 6F 75 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 61 6C 77 ; y - you will alw
0310h: 61 79 73 20 67 65 74 20 74 68 65 20 66 65 65 6C ; ays get the feel
0320h: 69 6E 67 20 6F 66 20 62 65 69 6E 67 20 68 61 74 ; ing of being hat
0330h: 65 64 21 20 42 42 49 20 72 75 6C 65 73 21 21 A1 ; ed! BBI rules!!¡
0340h: 20 44 49 45 20 49 4E 20 48 45 4C 4C 21 21 21 21 ;  DIE IN HELL!!!!
0350h: 20 58 61 00 00 16 2C 79 00 00 00 04 49 FA FD 90 ;  Xa...,y....Iúý
(...)
03c0h: 44 6F 6E 65 20 62 79 20 42 61 64 20 42 79 74 65 ; Done by Bad Byte
03d0h: 73 20 49 6E 63 20 2D 20 54 68 61 6E 78 20 74 6F ; s Inc - Thanx to
03e0h: 20 42 6C 61 63 6B 46 6C 61 73 68 20 66 6F 72 20 ;  BlackFlash for 
03f0h: 74 68 65 20 63 6F 64 65 21 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ; the code!

For more information go to Blackflash

Clones and variants

• IQ Breaker