Analysis of the Bouncing Ball Virus

Martin S Olivier and Heinrich W Teitge

1989

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Citation information

MS Olivier and HW Teitge, "Analysis of the Bouncing Ball Virus", Technical Report PKOMP 89/5, CSIR, July 1989

Abstract

Computer viruses have become a reality in South Africa and to safeguard computer systems, it is necessary to study every virus as it appears.

This report documents the first such study we undertook, which was of what is generally known as the Bouncing Ball Virus. A description of the major actions of the virus is given and an antidote is discussed.

Keywords

Computer virus, worm, trojan horse, bootstrap code, interrupt vector, bad sector, File Allocation Table

BibTeX entry

@TECHREPORT(bball,
  AUTHOR={Martin S Olivier and Heinrich W Teitge},
  TITLE={Analysis of the Bouncing Ball Virus},
  TYPE={Technical Report PKOMP 89/5},
  INSTITUTION={CSIR},
  ADDRESS={Pretoria, South Africa},
  MONTH={July},
  YEAR={1989} )

Full text

The full text may be downloaded from http://mo.co.za/open/bball.pdf (PDF, 25K) (©CSIR).

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