Warez-1341 Virus

Virus Name: Warez-1341 Aliases: V Status: New Discovered: April, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth; system hard disk FAT corrupted Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 1,341 Bytes Type Code: PNC - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, PCScan, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV, NShld, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, NAV/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Warez-1341 virus was submitted in April, 1993. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Warez-1341 is a non-resident direct action infector of .COM programs, but not COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Warez-1341 virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .COM programs in the current directory which are larger than approximately 2K in size. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 1,341 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 visible within the viral code in all Warez-1341 infected programs: "*.com" "- W A R E Z D 0 0 D -" The Warez-1341 virus will occassionally corrupt the file allocation table on the system hard disk when an infected program is executed. See: PS-MPC