Lo Tek Virus

Virus Name: Lo Tek Aliases: V Status: New Discovered: July, 1994 Symptoms: .COM & .EXE growth Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 856 or 859 Bytes Type Code: PNA - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM & .EXE Infector Detection Method: AVTK, IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, F-Prot, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, IBMAV/N, NShld, NAV/N, LProt, Innoc 4.0+ Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Lo Tek virus was submitted in July, 1994. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Lo Tek is a non-resident direct action infector of .COM and .EXE programs, but not COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Lo Tek virus is executed, this virus will infect two .COM or .EXE programs located in the current directory, with preference given to .COM files over .EXE files. Infected .COM files will have a file length increase of 859 bytes while infected .EXE files will increase in size by 856 bytes. In both cases, the virus will be 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 encrypted within the viral code: "*.*" "MM[BW" "[Lo Tek] by MnemoniX" It is unknown what Lo Tek does besides replicate.