Alex-368 Virus

Virus Name: Alex-368 Aliases: V Status: Rare Discovery: December, 1992 Symptoms: .COM file growth; file date/time altered Origin: USSR Eff Length: 368 Bytes Type Code: PNC - Parasitic Non-Resident .COM Infector Detection Method: IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, AVTK, F-Prot, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, NShld, Sweep/N, Innoc, NProt, AVTK/N, NAV/N, IBMAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Alex-368 virus was submitted in December, 1992. It is originally from the USSR. Alex-368 is a non-resident, direct action infector of .COM programs, but not COMMAND.COM. When a program infected with the Alex-368 virus is executed, this virus will infect all .COM programs larger than approximately 2K located in the current directory. Infected programs will have a file length increase of 368 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 have been updated to the current system date and time when infection occurred. The following text strings can be found within the viral code in all Alex-368 infected programs: "The One Night Virus (c) Alex Hacker" "*.COM"