Korea Virus

Virus Name: Korea Aliases: LBC Boot V Status: Common - Korea Discovered: March, 1990 Symptoms: BSC - 360k disks Origin: Seoul, Korea Eff Length: N/A Type Code: RF - Resident Floppy Boot Sector Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, AVTK, F-Prot, PCScan, NAV, Sweep, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, ChAV Removal Instructions: M-Disk, or DOS SYS command General Comments: The Korea, or LBC Boot, virus was isolated in March 1990 in Seoul, Korea. This virus is a memory resident boot sector infector for 5.25" 360K diskettes. The Korea virus is not intentionally destructive, it does nothing in its current form except for replicating. In some instances, when Korea infects a diskette it will damage the root directory as it moves the original boot sector to sector 11, the last sector of the root directory. If sector 11 previously contained directory entries, they will be lost.