StarDot 600 Virus

Virus Name: StarDot 600 Aliases: V Status: Common Discovered: April, 1991 Symptoms: .EXE growth; hard disk corruption; spurious characters to I/O ports Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 604 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, ViruScan, Sweep, AVTK, NAV, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, LProt, Sweep/N, NShld, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The StarDot 600 virus was submitted in April, 1991. Its origin is unknown. This virus is a non-resident infector of .EXE programs. When a program infected with StarDot 600 is executed, StarDot 600 will infect one .EXE program in the current directory. Programs infected with StarDot 600 will increase in length by 604 to 616 bytes with the virus being located at the end of the newly infected file. The file's date and time in the disk directory will not be altered. StarDot 600 will occassionally write random data to the default drive at times, as well as send random data to the system I/O ports (37F to 3DF). See: StarDot 789 StarDot 801