The Creeping Eel

Introduction

The Creeping Eel is a computer virus written for the Commodore Amiga. It is an old bootvirus and clone of the Disk-Herpes virus.
For further information please go to Disk-Herpes

Summary

• Overwrites the original bootblock of any unprotected disk while booting
• Uses DoIO()-vector of the exec.library for infection
• Stays resident in memory by using the CoolCapture
• It is not encrypted

Details

Compared to its original Disk-Herpes only the text of the graphical output has been changed:

0330h: 73 2E 6C 69 62 72 61 72 79 00 00 2C 00 1B 2D 2D ; s.library..,..--
0340h: 2D 20 48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 43 6F 6D 70 75 74 65 72 ; - Hello Computer
0350h: 66 72 65 61 6B 20 2D 2D 2D 00 00 16 00 4E 59 6F ; freak ---....NYo
0360h: 75 27 76 65 20 67 6F 74 20 6E 6F 77 20 79 6F 75 ; u've got now you
0370h: 72 20 66 69 72 73 74 20 56 49 52 55 53 2E 00 00 ; r first VIRUS...
0380h: 00 2A 00 68 2A 2A 2A 2A 20 54 48 45 20 43 52 45 ; .*.h**** THE CRE
0390h: 45 50 49 4E 47 20 45 45 4C 20 20 2A 2A 2A 2A 00 ; EPING EEL  ****.
03a0h: 00 2F 00 82 4D 61 6E 79 20 44 69 73 6B 73 20 61 ; ./.‚Many Disks a
03b0h: 72 65 20 69 6E 66 65 63 74 65 64 20 21 21 00 00 ; re infected !!..
03c0h: 00 1E 00 B4 57 72 69 74 74 65 6E 20 62 79 20 3E ; ...´Written by >
03d0h: 4D 41 58 20 4F 46 20 53 54 41 52 4C 49 47 48 54 ; MAX OF STARLIGHT
03e0h: 3C 20 00 00 00 3C 00 BE A9 20 32 39 2E 30 34 2E ; < ...<.¾© 29.04.
03f0h: 31 39 39 32 20 3C 3C 4D 41 58 3E 3E 20 20 00 00 ; 1992 <<MAX>>  ..

Clones and variants

None