This is actually not a virus but rather a virus-construction
toolkit, which can be used to create simple, easily detectable
viruses in large numbers. Most of the viruses don't work
properly, and the whole program is a rather shoddy piece of work.
This variant was found from South Africa in August 1994.
VCL.Genocide is an encrypting direct action infector
of COM files.
When run, it will locate a COM file from somewhere in the
hard disk, and infect it. The files will grow by 839 bytes.
The virus will activate on the 1st of August. At that time,
it will try to overwrite the boot sector of all available
drives. Due to a programming error, this will only succeed
with floppy drives, if they have diskettes inserted. Hard
disk will not be affected.
After the activation routine, the virus will beep and display
the following texts on screen before hanging the machine:
* This was a very bad day to switch on the Computer! *
--- Files Infected by the : Genocide2 Virus ! ---
== Copyright (C) Invader Pro. South Africa 1994. ==