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It is a harmless memory resident parasitic partly encrypted virus. It writes itself to the end of .COM and .EXE files. When an infected file is executed, the virus infects the C:\COMMAND.COM file, then it traces and hooks INT 21h, then it infects the files on DOS calls FindFirst/Next.
The virus uses anti-debug tricks. It contains two text strings, the former is encrypted, the latter is used as virus-ID word:
C:\COMMAND.COM
Yx

Updated: 02/24/2006
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