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Danger
Diffusion

Smash tries to format your hard disk

Win95.Smash:

Virus name

Win95.Smash

Operating systems

Windows 9x

Type

Trojan

Payload:
This virus from russia has the aim to format your hard disk and to open an access for the author to your data. The virus is about 10 KB big and attacks EXE-files, DLLs and other system data, as Screen saver files etc. Its activation date is the 14th of July. On this date Smash will overwrite the C:\IO.SYS-File and shows the following message:

Virus Warning! Your computer has been infected by virus. Virus name is 'SMASH', project D version 0x0A. Created and compiled by Domitor. Seems like your bad dream comes true... 

After this your PC is restarted and the trojan activated. The message "Formating hard disk..." appears and then the hard disk is formated

Remarks:
You can get a protection before this virus on  the page of Kapsersky Lab. They< have an update of their AVP-software (Antivirus Toolkit Pro). (Update...)

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