VP Virus

Virus Name: VP Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: May 1990 Symptoms: COMMAND.COM & .COM file growth; system slowdown Origin: England Eff Length: 913 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, AVTK, F-Prot, NAV, Sweep, IBMAV, ChAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: F-Prot, or delete infected files General Comments: The VP virus was first isolated in May, 1990. It is a non-resident generic .COM infector, and will infect COMMAND.COM. When an infected program is run, the virus will attempt to locate and infect another .COM file. In some cases, such as COMMAND.COM, the virus will display the contents of the program being infected. In other cases, the virus may attempt to execute the program being infected. Infected files increase in length by 913 bytes, and can be identified as the following hex string will appear near both the beginning and the end of an infected program: '4503EB1808655650'.