Gollum Virus

Virus Name: Gollum Aliases: V Status: New Discovered: January, 1995 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 662 Bytes Type Code: PNC - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, LProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Gollum virus was received in January, 1995. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Gollum is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, but not COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Gollum virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM file located in the current directory, but not COMMAND.COM. Programs infected with the Gollum virus will have a file length increase of 662 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 visible within the Gollum viral code: "Gollum v1.00, by Thanatos989" "????????COM" "*.COM COMMAND.COM" The first of these text strings will appear in infected files starting in the fourth byte of the file. It is unknown what the Gollum virus does besides replicate.