Marauder Virus By Hellraiser of Phalcon/Skism Aliases: Deadpool-B, 808-B, 860. Marauder is a non-overwriting, non-resident, encrypting, semi-mutating, .COM file infector. When a file is infected with the Marauder Virus the virus will search the current path for a .COM file and infect it, adding 860 bytes to the files size. If no .COM files reside in the current directory, the virus will go up one directory and check for .COM files to infect until it reaches the root. At the root directory the virus will scan for other directorys to find .COM files, until one uninfected .COM file is found. If no .COM files are found on the disk the virus will terminate it search and return to the currently running program. If an infected file is run on Feburary second of any year, the virus will destroys all files in the current directory, by overwritting them with message code. The files will not run when executed, just terminate upon reading the first line. There is no way to recover the files once the virus destroys them. After this, control will be given back to the host program. The Maruder virus is able to infect any .COM file no matter what attribute... Hidden, System, Read-Only, etc... The files date, time, and attribute will not be changed after a file becomes infected. The virus will not cause a system error if run on a write-protected floppy or fixed-disk, merely terminate any attempt of infection. The virus will not infect files under 16 bytes or over 64,675 bytes. For the most part the virus is randomly encrypted with each passing infection, the small part of the program code which is not encrypted mutates between two different, but comaptable strains of bytes. There is no way of detecting the virus infections other than the addition of 860 bytes to infected files, in other words, system-run time is not affected at all. If any run-time is affected it is the one second it takes for the virus to find and infect a file. The virus causes no damage to disk sectors or boot records etc... The only damage is the destuction of all files in the current directory on 02/02/XX. Thanks to: Shade of Sorrow, Dark Angel, and Demogorgon... And all other active members in Phalcon/Skism. Hellraiser 1992 I'm back...