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                    │        VIRUS REPORT         │
                    │       Datacrime II-B        │
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Synonyms: 1917 virus, Columbus Day

Date of Origin: November, 1989.

Place of Origin: Europe. Isolated by Jan Terpstra of the Netherlands.

Host Machine: PC compatibles.

Host Files: Non resident. Infects COMMAND.COM, EXE, COM files.

OnScreen Symptoms: none.

Increase in Size of Infected Files: 1917 bytes.

Nature of Damage: Corrupts program or overlay files. Also formats or
erases part/all of the disk.

Detected by: Scanv51+, F-Prot.

Removed by: CleanUp, AntiCrim, Scan/D, F-Prot.

Derived from: Datacrime II.

Scan Code: encrypted.

     Differences between this virus and the Datacrime II virus:

*   Files increase in length by 1,917 bytes, rather than 1,184 bytes.

*   The encryption method used by the virus to escape detection is
    different.


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