Honey Virus

Virus Name: Honey Aliases: Honey.666 V Status: Rare Discovered: September, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth; message displayed; file date/time changes Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 666 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, Sweep, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, Innoc, NAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Honey virus was submitted in September, 1993. Its origin is unknown, but it is probably from the United States. Honey is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Honey virus is executed, the Honey virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 666 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 have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings are visible within the viral code in all Honey infected programs: "*.COM C:\ . ANTI-VIR.DAT .. DOS" "Honey, I'm home . . ." "Earl Sinclair" "\CODE\WORK" "TSTS" The "Honey, I'm home . . ." string is the greeting used by the "Earl Sinclair" character in the "Dinosaurs" television program from 1992 and 1993. The virus will sometimes display these two strings as a message when an infected program is executed. Known variant(s) of Honey are: Honey.1027: Received in July, 1995, this is a 1,027 byte variant of the Honey virus described above. It infects one .COM file in the current directory when an infected program is executed. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 1,027 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 have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings are visible within the viral code in all infected programs: "!*+.ICOONMI" "HELLO!C:\ . ANTI-VIR.DAT .. DOS" "Honey, I'm home (again) . . ." "Earl Sinclair" "DINO IV strikes again . . . GOD this really cracks me up!" "This comes with much love from the Carnal Cathedral (headed by T.S.)" Origin: Unknown July, 1995.