F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Milan

A group of primitive viruses, which include a text message saying they are written by a person calling himself Cracker Jack, in Milan, Italy.

VARIANT:

Exterminator

When this 451 byte variant activates it will overwrite the beginning of the hard disk - generally resulting in the destruction of the FAT and root directory of drive C:

VARIANT:

BadGuy

A smaller, 265 byte variant which does nothing but replicate.

VARIANT:

Crackpot-208, New BadGuy, BillMe

Other variants, not particularly interesting.

VARIANT:

Sabrina, Naziskin, Naziskin 2

Non-working attempts to write a virus, based on other members of this family.

All the variants can only be removed by deleting infected programs, but as they are very primitive they are not expected to become a problem.