Shaman Virus

Virus Name: Shaman Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: March, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time changes Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 251 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: Sweep, F-Prot, ViruScan, AVTK, IBMAV, ChAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, Sweep/N, NShld, AVTK/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, Innoc, NAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Shaman virus was submitted in March, 1993. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Shaman is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Shaman virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .COM programs located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 251 bytes with the virus being located at the beginning of the file. The program's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings can be found within the viral code in all Shaman infected programs: "*.com" "Demo Virus v1.0 Copyright (c) 20.8.1991 by Shaman" Shaman doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate.