Hexametricx Virus

Virus Name: Hexametricx Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: February, 1994 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time seconds = 12 Origin: Germany Eff Length: 545 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: AVTK, IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, F-Prot, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, NAV/N, NProt, LProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Hexametricx virus was received in February, 1994. It appears to be from Germany. This virus is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM, which are located in the C: drive root directory. In its current state, it does not infect programs located in other directories, or on other drives. When a program infected with the Hexametricx virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM program located in the C: drive root directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 545 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 appear to be unaltered, though the seconds field will have been set to "12". The following text strings are encrypted within the Hexametricx viral code: "*.CoM" "Hello User, You have got The HEXAMETRICX Virus !!!" "Today is the month's B i r t h d a y !" "I was written in the City of Langen(Hessen), Germany" "by SuIgImErIuS" "(›)1993 v1.3" "GREETINGS TO ALL OTHER VIRUS WRITERS!" It is unknown what Hexametricx does besides replicate.