Struck Virus

Virus Name: Struck Aliases: Struck.731 V Status: New Discovered: January, 1996 Symptoms: .EXE growth; system hangs Origin: Republic Of South Africa Eff Length: 731 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Non-Resident Parasitic .EXE Infector Detection Method: ChAV, F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, PCScan, NAV, NAVDX, ViruScan 2.54+, Innoc, AVTK/N, IBMAV/N, NAV/N, NShld 2.33+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Struck or Struck.731 virus was received in January, 1996. It appears to be from the Republic of South Africa. Struck is a non-resident, direct action infector of .EXE files. When a program infected with the Struck virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .EXE files located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 731 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: "*.EXE .." "-THUNDER STRUCK- (c) SX" "Written in RSA." "Too many TSR programs loaded! Out of memory." "????????EXE" System hangs frequently occur on infected systems.