Experiments Virus

Virus Name: Experiments Aliases: Experiments-755 V Status: Rare Discovered: February, 1993 Symptoms: .EXE file growth Origin: USSR Eff Length: 755 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: Sweep, AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, IBMAV, PCScan, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV, Sweep/N, AVTK/N, NShld, NAV/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Experiments, or Experiments-755, virus was submitted in February, 1993. It is from the USSR. Experiments is a non-resident direct action infector of .EXE programs. When a program infected with the Experiments virus is executed, the Experiments virus will infect all of the .EXE files located in the current directory, though it will not infect very small .EXE files. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 755 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 string can be found within the viral code in all Experiments infected programs: "---- Small experiments path 2.1 ----" It is unknown what Experiments may do besides replicate. See: Experiments-416