IronFist Virus

Virus Name: IronFist Aliases: IronFist.188 V Status: New Discovered: July, 1995 Symptoms: .COM file growth; message displayed Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 188 Bytes Type Code: PNC - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, VAlert, NAVDX, NAV, Sweep, IBMAV, ViruScan, PCScan, ChAV, Sweep/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, AVTK/N, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The IronFist or IronFist.188 virus was received in July, 1995. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. IronFist is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM files, but not COMMAND.COM. When an IronFist infected program is executed, this virus will infect one .COM file located in the current directory, but not COMMAND.COM. If it is able to find a program to infected, it will then display the following message: "Evil has an iron fist" Programs infected with the IronFist virus will have a file length increase of 188 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 not be altered. The following text strings are visible within the viral code: "*.COM" "Evil has an iron fist"