Quicky Virus

Virus Name: Quicky Aliases: Quicksilver, Quicky.1376 V Status: New Discovered: July, 1995 Symptoms: .EXE file growth; TSR Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 1,376 Bytes Type Code: PRsE - Parasitic Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, VAlert, ViruScan, Sweep, NAVDX, NAV, IBMAV, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NAV/N, NProt, LProt, AVTK/N, IBMAV 2.41D+, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Quicky or Quicksilver virus was received in July, 1995. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Quicky is a memory resident infector of .EXE files. It does not infect files located on the A: drive. When the first Quicky infected program is executed, this virus will become memory resident as a low system memory TSR of 1,664 bytes. Interrupts 13 and 21 will be hooked by the virus in memory. Once the Quicky virus is memory resident, it will infect .EXE files on the system hard disk when they are executed. Infected files will have a file length increase of 1,376 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: "CHKLIST.TAV" "QUICKY" This virus may interfer with the functionality of some versions of Turbo Anti-Virus.