Guardians Boot Aids

Introduction

Guardians Boot Aids is a computer virus written for the Commodore Amiga. It is a clone of The Lamer Exterminator virus.

Summary

• Destroys disk blocks randomly by putting the word "HIV" on the affected block
• Unlike its original it is not encrypted

For more information go to The Lamer Exterminator

Details

You can read the following strings in the bootblock of an infected floppy disk:

01c0h: B0 BA FE 3E 66 00 01 32 60 28 74 68 65 20 67 75 ; °ºþ>f..2`(the gu
01d0h: 61 72 64 69 61 6E 73 20 67 72 65 65 74 73 20 61 ; ardians greets a
01e0h: 72 65 20 67 6F 69 6E 67 20 74 6F 20 50 43 42 20 ; re going to PCB 
01f0h: 21 20 0C A9 00 00 04 00 00 24 67 00 00 FC 20 69 ; ! .©.....$g..ü i

and

00000370h: FF FC 4E 75 74 72 61 63 6B 64 69 73 6B 2E 64 65 ; ÿüNutrackdisk.de
00000380h: 76 69 63 65 00 00 67 75 72 61 64 69 61 6E 73 20 ; vice..guradians 
00000390h: 62 6F 6F 74 2D 61 69 64 73 20 62 79 20 68 69 76 ; boot-aids by hiv

For more information go to The Lamer Exterminator

Clones and variants

• None