Kaos4 got distributed via a file that was posted in a message to
the usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica on the 24th of
July, 1994.
The virus did spread very fast around the globe. Incidents were
reported from at least USA, Germany, Austria, Norway and Finland.
Kaos4 is a simple virus by operation: it spreads only, when
an infected file is executed. The virus infects COM and
EXE files in the current directory and in the directories
listed in PATH. It does not do anything besides spreading.
Infected files grow by 697 bytes.
The virus contains the following text: "KAOS4 / K"hntark". K"hntark
is an alias for a known virus writer in USA.
