Bloody Warrior Virus

Virus Name: Bloody Warrior Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: April, 1994 Symptoms: .COM & .EXE file growth; decrease in total system & available free memory Origin: Italy Eff Length: 1,344 Bytes Type Code: PRhAK - Parasitic Resident .COM & .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, ViruScan, AVTK, Sweep, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, PCScan, NShld, NProt, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, NAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Bloody Warrior virus was received in February, 1994. It appears to be from Italy. This virus is a memory resident infector of .COM and .EXE programs, including COMMAND.COM. When the first Bloody Warrior infected program is executed, this virus will install itself memory resident at the top of system memory but below the 640K DOS boundary, not moving interrupt 12's return. Total system and available free memory, as indicated by the DOS CHKDSK program, will have decreased by 2,768 bytes. Interrupt 21 will be hooked by the virus is memory. Once the Bloody Warrior virus is memory resident, it will infect .COM and .EXE programs when they are executed. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 1,344 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. The following text strings are encrypted within the Bloody Warrior's viral code: "FUCK YOU" "EXECOMSCANSTOPSHIELDCLEANCVDEBUGTDHello, world" "I am the Bloody Warrior. Nice to meet you. What about this virus ? Funny ?" "There is no hope for you. This virus was released in Milan 1993. Bloody Warrior" It is unknown what Bloody Warrior does besides replicate.