Butt Stink Virus

Virus Name: Butt Stink Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: January, 1993 Symptoms: .EXE file growth; message displayed Origin: North America Eff Length: 540 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, Sweep, NAV, IBMAV, AVTK, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, NAV/N, AVTK/N, IBMAV/N, LProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Butt Stink virus was received in January, 1993, and is probably from North America. Butt Stink is a non-resident, direct action infector of .EXE programs. When a program infected with the Butt Stink virus is executed, this virus will infect all of the .EXE files located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 540 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 Butt Stink virus' code: "????????EXE" "You know what?" "Your Butt Stinks!!!" "And YAM can't stand it!" The last three lines of text above forms a message which will occassionally be displayed on the system monitor when an infected program is executed.