Talentless Virus

Virus Name: Talentless Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: August, 1992 Symptoms: .COM & .EXE file growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 1,077 Bytes Type Code: PNAK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM & .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, Sweep, IBMAV, AVTK, ChAV, ViruScan, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, LProt, NShld, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Talentless virus was received in August, 1992. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Talentless is a non-resident, direct action .COM and .EXE infector. It will also infect COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Talentless virus is executed, the Talentless virus may infect one .COM or .EXE program located on the C: drive. The virus will start looking for a program to infect in the C: drive root directory, and then move down through the directory structure. Programs infected with the Talentless virus will have a file length increase of 1,077 bytes. The virus will be 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 visible in all Talentless infected programs: "^^^^^^^^ COMMAND.COM *.COM *.EXE" "Bad command or file name" It is unknown if Talentless does anything besides replicate.