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Taiwan

ORIGIN:Taiwan
SIZE:677-752
TYPE:Non-resident COM-files
REPAIR:Yes

Summary

This virus seems to have appeared first in January '90. It activates on the 8th day of any month, overwriting the FAT and root directory of drives C: and D: Four variants are known, 708, 743, 677 and 752 bytes long. Infected programs sometimes "hang", for some unknown reason.