Polish-376 Virus

Virus Name: Polish-376 Aliases: V376 V Status: Rare Discovered: November, 1991 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time change Origin: Poland Eff Length: 376 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, AVTK, Sweep, 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 Polish-376 virus originated in Poland and was submitted in November, 1991. This virus is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with Polish-376 is executed, the virus will infect all .COM files located in the current directory. If COMMAND.COM resides in this directory, it will become infected as well. Polish-376 infected programs will have a file length increase of 376 bytes with the virus being located at the end of the file. The file's date and time in the DOS disk directory will have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. Polish-376 does not appear to do anything besides replicate.