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| Green_Caterpillar.1575 - Virus Details
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Green_Caterpillar.1575
Aliases: Find, 1575, 1591
Size: 1575 bytes
Frequency: 3
Characteristics:
- Infects COM files
- Infects EXE files
- Memory resident
- Displays visual effects (other than message)
Information:
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. 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.
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