Vice is highly polymorphic virus, which infects COM and EXE files when they are executed or otherwise accessed.
Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either move the file to the quarantine where it cannot spread or cause harm, or remove it.
A False Positive is when a file is incorrectly detected as harmful, usually because its code or behavior resembles known harmful programs. A False Positive will usually be fixed in a subsequent database update without any action needed on your part. If you wish, you may also:
Check for the latest database updates
First check if your F-Secure security program is using the latest updates, then try scanning the file again.
Submit a sample
After checking, if you still believe the file is incorrectly detected, you can submit a sample of it for re-analysis.
Note: If the file was moved to quarantine, you need to collect the file from quarantine before you can submit it.
Exclude a file from further scanning
If you are certain that the file is safe and want to continue using it, you can exclude it from further scanning by the F-Secure security product.
Note: You need administrative rights to change the settings.
Vice will not infect files which have a name ending with the following characters:
ND. (COMMAND.COM) AN. (SCAN.EXE) AV. (NAV.EXE, MSAV.EXE, CPAV.EXE, TBAV.EXE) OT. (F-PROT.EXE) NU. (Norton Utilities NU.EXE)
In addition, Vice will delete files with the following extensions:
-V? (AVP's crc database) MS? (MSAV's crc database) CP? (CPAV's crc database)
Vice can also detect and delete the crc database of Invircible antivirus program, although Invircible will name it's files randomly.
In some cases Vice will also corrupt BAT files, 'infecting' them as if they were executable files. Vice will also occasionally corrupt program files while infecting them; such corrupted files will crash when executed, and there is no easy way to detect them. Otherwise the virus only spreads.
Vice allocates approximately 9 kB of memory and contains this text:
Code Journal by Virogen [NuKE]
Vice was reported to be in the wild in USA and Finland in April 1996.