Lippi-286 Virus

Virus Name: Lippi-286 Aliases: Lippi V Status: Rare Discovered: December, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 286 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: IBMAV, Sweep, AVTK, F-Prot, ViruScan, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, Sweep/N, NShld, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Lippi-286, or Lippi, virus was submitted in December, 1992. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Lippi-286 is a non- resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Lippi-286 virus is executed, the Lippi-286 virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 286 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 not be altered. The following text strings are visible within the Lippi-286 viral code in all infected programs: "*.COM" "(C)RomlSoft(LipPI)1991" Lippi-286 doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate.