PC Flu Virus

Virus Name: PC Flu Aliases: Flu V Status: Rare Discovered: November, 1991 Symptoms: .COM & .EXE growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 802 Bytes Type Code: PRfCK - Parasitic Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, Sweep, AVTK, F-Prot, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The PC Flu virus was received from Europe in November, 1991. Its origin is unknown. PC Flu is a memory resident infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. The first time a program infected with PC Flu is executed, PC Flu will become memory resident in low system available free memory, hooking interrupt 21. Total system and available free memory will not be changed. Once PC Flu is memory resident, it will infect .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM, when they are executed or opened for any reason. Programs infected with PC Flu will have increased in size by 802 bytes. The virus will be located at the end of the infected file. The following text string will be found near the end of all infected programs: "PC-FLU by WIZARD 1991" It is unknown what PC Flu does besides replicate. See: PC Flu-2