Does the Cookie Monster virus actually exist?
“A cookie monster virus, similar to the one in the one in the movie ‘hackers’ does exist in real life. Actually, there are four known cookie viruses. 1. The first one is based on the ‘syslock’ virus. It adds 2232 bytes to an infected COM or EXE file and is NOT memory resident. Systems infected with this cookie virus may experience system hangs and sometimes it may display the message: “I want a cookie”. Anti Virus researchers disagree whether this message is always displayed. 2. The second one is also called Animus. It adds 7360 bytes to an infected COM or EXE file and is memory resident (it hooks interrupts 22 and 24). The virus will switch filenames (datafiles too), so complete directories will be messed up. It displays a similar message. 3. The third one is a variant of the foregoing virus. It adds 7392 bytes to the end of COM and EXE files. 4. The fourth one infects large COM files only. The files are corrupted and cannot be recovered by any Anti Viral product. The original files h
