Minimite Virus

Virus Name: Minimite Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: March, 1993 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time changes to 4-24-80 12:04a Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 183 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, F-Prot, Sweep, NAV, AVTK, IBMAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NAV/N, AVTK/N, NProt, IBMAV/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Minimite virus was submitted in March, 1993. Its origin is unknown. Minimite is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Minimite virus is executed, the Minimite virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory, and then the host program the user was attempting to execute will run. Programs infected with the Minimite virus will have a file length increase of 183 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 have been altered to 04-24-80 12:04a. The following text strings can be found within the viral code in all Minimite infected programs: "*.COM" "-C.K.-" Minimite doesn't appear to do anything besides replicate.