Summary

This is a resident file virus which infects COM files.

Additional Details

When an infected file is executed, the virus will install itself in memory and reserves 2048 bytes for itself although its size is only 992 bytes. Virus hooks INT 13h, INT 20h and INT 21h.

Virus contains a counter which is incremented every time when a disk is being written to or formatted. When the counter reaches 766, virus terminates the current program with INT 20h and displays a message saying 'Virus in memory !!! Created by 21.I.1990 - PMG\OTME - Tolbuhin ...' and hangs the computer.

When an infected file is executed, the virus will infect one COM file found in the current directory. Virus will not infect files which are smaller than 416 bytes. It doesn't infect COMMAND.COM either.

If an infected file is executed on the 15th day of the month, virus overwrites 9 sectors from the beginning of the disk and hangs the machine.

VARIANT:

SK-1004, SK-1147

Somewhat longer variants.