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NMSG.214

It is a dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic virus. It searches for .EXE files, then writes itself into the file middle. The file length does not grow, but the virus may corrupt the files while infecting them. The virus contains the text string:
*.exe <>

While infecting the virus overwrites the area of Microsoft C error messages. That area presents in EXE files compiled with MSC compiler, and contains the text strings:
<>
R6000 - stack overflow
R6003 - integer divide by 0

e.t.c. While infecting the virus searches for the string
<>

in the file body, then overwrites that area with the virus code.

Updated: 02/24/2006
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