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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Price





NAME:Price
ALIAS:Fischer Price 96
SIZE:332
TYPE:Resident COM-files Overwriting

This simple virus was spread in a file called ftplist.zip in the internet in fall 1996.

When the infected program is run, the virus infects one COM program in the current directory and stays resident: from now own it puts the text

        Fischer Price 96

to keyboard buffer every now and then.

[Analysis: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure]