Billboard 1.0 Virus

Virus Name: Billboard 1.0 Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: July, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time seconds = "00"; message Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 835 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, IBMAV, AVTK, Sweep, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, NProt, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, AVTK/N, NAV/N, LProt, Innoc Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Billboard 1.0 virus was received in July, 1993. Though the virus claims to be from Australia, its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Billboard 1.0 is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. It does not infect very small .COM programs. When a program infected with the Billboard 1.0 virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .COM files located in the current directory which are larger than approximately 3K. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 835 bytes with the virus being located at the beginning of the file. The program's time in the DOS disk directory listing may disappear as the virus sets the seconds field in the file date and time to "00". The following text strings are encrypted within the Billboard 1.0 viral code: "Billboard 1.0, (c)1993 Slīīzī [Nuke]." "Jeff K. - You are a lying prick, just like all politicians" "Patty - This was written from the ground up, in Australia" "Alan - You are wasting your time chasing Rock Steady" "Frisk - Pull your head out of your ass [NuKE] is way ahead of you AV wankers" "Johnny - Scan is just too lame to worry about ha ha" "*.com" The Billboard 1.0 virus contains code to display the above text as a message.