Western Ukraine Virus

Virus Name: Western Ukraine Aliases: V Status: New Discovered: July, 1994 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time seconds = "62" Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 274 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: IBMAV, AVTK, ViruScan, Sweep, F-Prot, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, NProt, NAV/N, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Western Ukraine virus was received in July, 1994. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. It is a non-resident direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Western Ukraine virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM file located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 274 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 appear to be altered, but the seconds field will have been set to "62". The following text strings are visible within the viral code in all infected programs: "*.COM" "Western Ukraine"