Green_Caterpillar.1575 - Virus Details Green_Caterpillar.1575 Aliases: Find, 1575, 1591 Size: 1575 KB Frequency: 11 Characteristics: Infects COM files Infects EXE files Memory resident Displays visual effects (other than message) Information: Visual Effects: A text-mode, green Caterpillar (or Centipede) moves from the top of the screen to the bottom, from left to right for each row. As it goes it "eats" each character and "drops" it out its rear end. The dropped characters are yellow on black. Triggered when an infected file is run three, or more, months after it was infected. Notes: The time/date stamp of files are changed to the time/date of the infection. The virus infects on the DOS FCB findfirst and findnext routines as called by a "dir" command. Back to the Virus List page Virus Databases Virus Links Virus Research Security About Us Products Updates Support Resellers Purchase Contact Us  Home Command Software · Inc 1061 East Indiantown Road · Suite 500 Jupiter · FL   33477 USA