Small EXE Virus


 Virus Name:  Small EXE 
 Aliases: 
 V Status:    Rare 
 Discovered:  November, 1992 
 Symptoms:    .EXE file growth 
 Origin:      England 
 Eff Length:  349 Bytes 
 Type Code:   PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector 
 Detection Method:  AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, 
                    NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, 
                    NShld, Sweep/N, AVTK/N, LProt, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, NProt 
 Removal Instructions:  Delete infected files 
 
 General Comments: 
       The Small EXE virus was received from England in November, 1992. 
       Small EXE is a non-resident, direct action infector of .EXE programs. 
       It doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate. 
 
       When a program infected with the Small EXE virus is executed, this 
       virus will infect one .EXE program located in the current directory. 
       Infected programs will have a file length increase of 349 bytes with 
       the virus being located at the end of the file.  The program's date 
       and time will not be altered.  The following text string can be 
       found within the viral code in all Small EXE infected programs: 
 
               "*.exe [SmallEXE] Apache Warrior." 
      

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