Stupid-1355 Virus

Virus Name: Stupid-1355 Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: April, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth; system hangs; boot failures Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 1,355 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Non-Resident Parasitic .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, Sweep, PCScan, ChAV, NAV, ViruScan, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, NShld, Sweep/N, LProt, Innoc, NProt, IBMAV/N, AVTK/N, NAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Stupid-1355 virus was received in April, 1992. Its origin is unknown. Stupid-1355 is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with Stupid-1355 is executed, the virus will infect one .COM program in the current directory, and then a system hang will occur. If COMMAND.COM is in the current directory, it may become infected. Once COMMAND.COM becomes infected, the system will fail to boot. Programs infected with the Stupid-1355 virus will have a file length increase of 1,355 bytes with the virus being located at the end of the infected file. There will be no change to the file's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing. One text string can be found within the viral code in infected programs: "*.BNL"