Infinity Virus

Virus Name: Infinity Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: January, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Canada Eff Length: 732 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, Sweep, AVTK, ChAV, NAV, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, NShld, LProt, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Infinity virus was received in January, 1992. It is from Canada. Infinity is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with Infinity is executed, the Infinity virus will search the current directory for the first uninfected .COM file. If an uninfected .COM file is found, the virus will infect it. Infinity infected .COM files will have a file length increase of 732 bytes. The virus will be located at the end of the infected file. The file's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will not be altered. The following text strings can be found within the viral code of Infinity infected programs: "SKISM ReplicatoR" "FiRe is a LAMER... destroy InFiniTy!" "PATH=*.COM" "????????COM" It is unknown if Infinity does anything besides replicate.