Foxy Virus


 Virus Name:  Foxy 
 Aliases:     Foxy.127 
 V Status:    New 
 Discovered:  July, 1995 
 Symptoms:    .COM file growth; file date/time changes 
 Origin:      Unknown 
 Eff Length:  127 Bytes 
 Type Code:   PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector 
 Detection Method:  F-Prot, AVTK, VAlert, ViruScan, NAV, NAVDX, Sweep, 
                    IBMAV, PCScan, ChAV, 
                    AVTK/N, NShld, Sweep/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, Innoc 
 Removal Instructions:  Delete infected files 
 
 General Comments: 
       The Foxy virus was received in July, 1995.  Its origin or point of 
       isolation is unknown.  Foxy is a non-resident, direct action .COM 
       infector.  It doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate. 
 
       When a program infected with the Foxy virus is executed, this virus 
       will infect all of the .COM files located in the current directory. 
       Infected files will have a file length increase of 127 bytes with 
       the virus being located at the beginning of the file.  The program's 
       date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will have been 
       updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. 
       The following text string is visible within the viral code in all 
       infected files: 
 
           "*.com" 

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