Lamer Exterminator
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Lamer Exterminator is a computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga. It was first detected in Germany in October 1989. It is a boot sector virus.
It is notable as the first virus known to be defensive. It hooks into the system in such a way that examining a bootblock will return a normal result and upon replicating will also encrypt itself.
[edit] Symptoms
- Over-writes the bootblock
- Remains RAM resident (allocating 1024 bytes and identifying itself: 'The LAMER Exterminator !!!')
- Hooks into the system (remaining reset-resident)
- Destroys media blocks by overwriting them 84 times with the string 'LAMER!', causing read/write errors on affected storage media. This causes filesystem corruption and data loss, which is unrecoverable.
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