Mr Virus Virus

Virus Name: Mr Virus Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovered: November, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth Origin: Italy Eff Length: 508 Bytes Type Code: PNCK - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: ViruScan, AVTK, F-Prot, Sweep, IBMAV, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, Innoc, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Mr Virus virus was submitted from Italy in November, 1992. Mr Virus is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, including COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Mr Virus virus is executed, this virus will infect one .COM program located in the current directory. If COMMAND.COM is located in this directory, it may become infected. Programs infected with the Mr Virus virus will have a file length increase of 508 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 can be found within the viral code in all Mr Virus infected programs: "Mr.Virus Ver. 1.10" "????????COM" "*.COM" "???????????" "COMMAND.COM" It is unknown what Mr. Virus does besides replicate.