Iron Umbrella Virus

Virus Name: Iron Umbrella Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: June, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Germany Eff Length: 359 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, NAV, Sweep, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, AVTK/N, NProt, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, Sweep/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Iron Umbrella virus was submitted in June, 1993, and appears to be from Germany. Iron Umbrella is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Iron Umbrella virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 359 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 viral code in all Iron Umbrella infected programs: "G+ALLERBMU NORI+" "(C) 1991 by SMAUG in MNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND!" ".. *.com" The first text string, read backwards, contains the virus' name.