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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Perfume Virus │
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- Synonyms: 765, 4711
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- Date of Origin: December, 1989 or earlier.
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- Place of Origin: Poland or Germany.
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- Host Machine: PC compatibles.
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- Host Files: Non-resident. Infects COM files including COMMAND.COM
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- Increase in Size of Infected Files: 765 bytes.
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- Detected by: Scanv57+, F-Prot, IBM Scan, Pro-Scan.
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- Removed by: F-Prot or delete infected files.
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- Derived from: Jerusalem
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- The virus may ask you a question, and not infect should you answer
- the question with "4711", the name of a German perfume. In the most
- common version of this virus, however, the questions have been
- overwritten with meaningless characters.
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