Sveta Virus

Virus Name: Sveta Aliases: Sveta.309 V Status: New Discovered: July, 1995 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time changes Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 309 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, VAlert, NAV, NAVDX, Sweep, ViruScan, IBMAV, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, NShld, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected programs General Comments: The Sveta virus was received in July, 1995. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Sveta is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Sveta virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the previously uninfected .COM files in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 309 bytes with the virus being located at the beginning of the file. The program's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings are visible within the viral code in all infected files: "*.com" "Sveta"