1835 Virus

Virus Name: 1835 Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: June, 1992 Symptoms: .EXE file growth Origin: Bulgaria Eff Length: 1,835 Bytes Type Code: PNE - Parasitic Non-Resident .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, ViruScan, Sweep, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The 1835 virus was submitted in June, 1992. It is a non-resident infector of .EXE programs and is very roughly based on the Yankee Doodle virus. The submitted sample has been indicated to have originated from Bulgaria. When a program infected with the 1835 virus is executed, the 1835 virus will infect two .EXE programs located in the current drive's current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 1,835 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. Two text strings occur within the virus which can be found in infected files: "*.exe *.*" "wwZZZZ" It is unknown if 1835 does anything besides replicate.