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CaroNameGreen_Caterpillar.1575
InfoVISUAL EFFECT: A text-mode, green Caterpillar (or Centipede) moves from the top of the screen to the bottom, from left to LEFT for each row. As it goes it "eats" each character and "drops" it out its rear end. The dropped characters are yellow on black. Triggered when an infected file is run three, or more, months after it was infected. NOTE: The time/date stamp of files are changed to the time/date of the infection. The virus infects on the DOS FCB findfirst and findnext routines as called by a "dir" command.
Siz1575
MbrNo
HbrNo
BooNo
ComYes
ExeYes
SysNo
CmpNo
OleNo
ResYes
MltNo
SemNo
FulNo
EncNo
PolNo
ArmNo
TunNo
VfxYes
SfxNo
MusNo
MsgNo
TxtNo
TxcNo
WarNo
DamNo
CmoNo
XmbNo
CmdNo
XmdNo
AavNo
DavNo
TavNo
TinNo
BugNo
Frequency16
AliasesFind, 1575, 1591