Polish 583 Virus

Virus Name: Polish 583 Aliases: Polish-583, Vienna-583 V Status: Rare Discovered: December, 1990 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Poland Eff Length: 583 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, AVTK, F-Prot, NAV, Sweep, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Polish 583 virus originated in Poland and was submitted in December, 1990. This virus is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with Polish 583 is executed, the virus will infect one other .COM file on the current drive and directory. The newly infected program will increase in length by 583 bytes with the virus's code being located at the end of the infected program. The program's date and time in the disk directory is not altered. This virus does not do anything besides replicate.