Small ARCV Virus

Virus Name: Small ARCV Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: November, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: England Eff Length: 236 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: AVTK, F-Prot, NAV, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Small ARCV virus was received from England in November, 1992. Small ARCV is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. It doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate. When a program infected with the Small ARCV virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 236 bytes with the virus being located at the end of the file. The program's date and time will not be altered. The following text string can be found within the viral code in all Small ARCV infected programs: "[SmallARCV] Apache Warrior. *.com"