Powerbomb

Introduction

Powerbomb is a computer bootvirus written for the Commodore Amiga. It is a simple clone of the Byte Bandit virus.

Summary

• Overwrites the original bootblock of any unprotected disk inserted in the floppy drive of an Amiga computer
• Uses BeginIO() of the trackdisk.device for infection
• Stays resident in memory by using KickTag
• Hooks ExecVec5 interrupt
• Is not encrypted

Details

Only the typical Byte Bandit-text in the bootblock has been altered, everything else is the same

Clones and variants

None