Wednesday, August 15, 2012

FIREFLY - More than A Smart Virus

Firefly is an encrypted, memory resident virus which infects
.COM files on load.  It incorporates code from Proto-T
LokJaw and YB-X viruses and, when in memory, attacks a large election of anti-virus programs as they are executed.  Anti-virus programs identified by Firefly's execute/load handler are deleted.
Firefly incorporates simple code from previous issues of the newsletter signed to de-install generic VSAFE resident virus activity
filters designed for Microsoft by Central Point Software.