This Windows-based virus was found in the wild from France and UK in
March 1996. The virus was distributed in a file called dogzcode.zip
via the alt.cracks usenet newsgroup. Tentacle infects Windows 3.1x EXE
files.
Tentacle infects files in the current and Windows directories. It does
not stay memory resident.
Occasionally, Tentacle will replace the icon in the infected EXE file
with it's own copy. This new icon has a picture of a tentacle and
the text 'Tentacle'. Tentacle also sometimes corrupts EXE files when
infecting them. Such program do not work after the infection.
The author of this virus also wrote the Shell and Tentatrickle viruses.
See: Shell
