Breaking Virus

Virus Name: Breaking Aliases: Breaking.1000 V Status: Rare Discovery: October, 1994 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 1,000 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, ViruScan, AVTK, Sweep, NAV, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, NProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Breaking virus was received in October, 1994. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Breaking is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Breaking virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .COM files located in the current directory. Infected .COM files will have a file length increase of 1,000 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 can be found within the viral code in all Breaking infected programs: "*.COM" "1991" It is unknown what Breaking does besides replicate. Known variant(s) of Breaking are: Breaking.1000.B: Received in July, 1995, Breaking.1000.B is a 1,000 byte minor variant of the Breaking virus described above. Origin: Unknown July, 1995.