Plutto Virus

Virus Name: Plutto Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: July, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: USSR Eff Length: 602 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, Sweep, F-Prot, IBMAV, AVTK, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Plutto virus was submitted in July, 1992, and is from the USSR. Plutto is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Plutto virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM file located in the current directory. If COMMAND.COM is located in this directory, it may become infected. Programs infected with the Plutto virus will have a file length increase of 602 bytes with the virus being located at the end of the file. The program's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will not be altered. One text string can be found within all programs infected with the Plutto virus: "pLuTto_B" Plutto doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate.