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- PRETORIA VIRUS
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- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 90 09:53:55 +0000
- From: Fridrik Skulason, University of Iceland
- Subject: New viruses from South Africa (PC)
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- The following virus has recently been reported in South Africa.
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- Pretoria (alias June 16th)
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- Infects .COM files only, enlarging them by 879 bytes. When an
- infected file is run, all .COM files on the current drive will be
- infected. This makes the virus rather easily detectable - the time
- it takes to start a program may grow enormously, as the virus does a
- recursive scan on the directory tree.
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- On June 16th, all entries in the root directory are changed to
- 'ZAPPED'.
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- The virus is reported to be encrypted.
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