Crazy Priest Virus


 Virus Name:  Crazy Priest 
 Aliases: 
 V Status:    New 
 Discovery:   January, 1995 
 Symptoms:    .COM & .EXE growth 
 Origin:      Unknown 
 Eff Length:  1,416 Bytes 
 Type Code:   PNAK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM & .EXE Infector 
 Detection Method:  F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, 
                    NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV, 
                    AVTK/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, NAV/N, 
                    Innoc 4.0+ 
 Removal Instructions:  Delete infected files 
 
 General Comments: 
       The Crazy Priest virus was received in January, 1995.  Its origin or 
       point of isolation is unknown.  Crazy Priest is a non-resident, 
       direct action infector of .COM and .EXE files, including COMMAND.COM. 
       It is unknown what it may do besides replicate. 
 
       When a program infected with the Crazy Priest virus is executed, this 
       virus will infect all of the .COM and .EXE files located in the 
       current directory.  Infected files will have a file length increase 
       of 1,416 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: 
 
               "Hello i'm virus Crazy Priest !!!" 
               "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRAZY !!!" 
               "BOOT,MBR" 
               "FAT" 
               "by CRAZY*.* COMMAND.COM"

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