Small EXE Virus

Virus Name: Small EXE Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: November, 1992 Symptoms: .EXE file growth Origin: England Eff Length: 349 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, NShld, Sweep/N, AVTK/N, LProt, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, NProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Small EXE virus was received from England in November, 1992. Small EXE is a non-resident, direct action infector of .EXE programs. It doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate. When a program infected with the Small EXE virus is executed, this virus will infect one .EXE program located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 349 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 EXE infected programs: "*.exe [SmallEXE] Apache Warrior."