Baron Virus

Virus Name: Baron Aliases: Germ 255 V Status: New Discovery: July, 1994 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: England Eff Length: 255 Bytes Type Code: PRaCK - Parasitic Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, VAlert, NAVDX, PCScan, Sweep/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, AVTK/N, NShld, NAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Baron virus was received in July, 1994. It is a memory resident infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When the first Baron infected program is executed, this virus will install itself memory resident in previously allocated system memory. Interrupt 21 will be hooked by the virus. Once resident, the Baron virus will infect .COM programs when they are executed. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 255 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 infected programs: "GERM. (C) The Black Baron U.K 93" "Better SMEG than dead"