Nanite Virus

Virus Name: Nanite Aliases: V Status: Viron Discovered: July, 1994 Symptoms: .COM & .EXE files overwritten; program corruption; programs fail to function Origin: Unknown Eff Length: 332 Bytes Overwriting Type Code: ONA - Overwriting Non-Resident .COM & .EXE Infector Detection Method: F-Prot, AVTK, IBMAV, ViruScan, Sweep, NAV, NAVDX, VAlert, PCScan, ChAV, AVTK/N, Sweep/N, NProt, NShld, IBMAV/N, Innoc, NAV/N, LProt Removal Instructions: Delete infected files General Comments: The Nanite virus was received in July, 1994. Its origin or point of isolation is unknown. Nanite is a non-resident direct action over- writing virus which infects .COM and .EXE programs. When a program infected with the Nanite virus is executed, this virus will infect some of the .COM and .EXE programs located in the current directory. Infected programs will have the first 332 bytes of the program overwritten by the Nanite viral code. The file's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will not be altered. The following text string is visible within the viral code in all Nanite infected programs: "NaNiTe *.EXE *.COM" Programs infected with the Nanite virus will be permanently corrupted by the infection. They should be deleted and replaced with a clean, uninfected backup copy.