Breeze Virus

Virus Name: Breeze Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: December, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: The Netherlands Eff Length: 358 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, AVTK/N, LProt, IBMAV/N, NAV/N, Innoc Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Breeze virus was submitted in December, 1992, and is originally from The Netherlands. Breeze is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. It is written by the same author as the Deicide family of viruses. When a program infected with the Breeze virus is executed, the Breeze virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. If COMMAND.COM is located in this directory, it may become infected. Programs infected with the Breeze virus will have a file length increase of 358 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 not be altered. The following text strings can be found within the viral code in all Breeze infected programs: "Dutch [Breeze] by Glenn Benton" "*.COM" Breeze doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate. See: Deicide