Blood Sugar Virus

Virus Name: Blood Sugar Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: February, 1994 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 416 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, IBMAV, AVTK, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NProt, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, NAV/N, LProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Blood Sugar virus was received in February, 1994. It's origin or point of isolation is unknown. This virus is a memory resident direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with Blood Sugar is executed, the Blood Sugar virus will infect all of the .COM programs located in the current directory. If COMMAND.COM is located in this directory, it will become infected. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 416 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 encrypted within the viral code: "*.COM" "[C6H1206] $ Blood Sugar by MnemoniX"