1210 Virus

Virus Name: 1210 Aliases: Prudents V Status: Rare Discovery: December, 1989 Symptoms: .EXE growth; disk write failure; TSR Origin: Spain Eff Length: 1,210 Bytes Type Code: PRE - Parasitic Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, NAV, AVTK, Sweep, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: F-Prot, NAV, or delete infected files General Comments: The 1210, or Prudents virus, was first isolated in Barcelona, Spain, in December 1989. The 1210 is a memory resident virus, infecting .EXE files when they are executed. This virus activates between May 1st and May 4th of any year, causing disk writes to be changed to disk verifies, so writes to the disk never occur between these dates.