%%File: VIRS0192.TXT %%Name/Aliases: Brain, Pakistani, Ashar, Shoe, Shoe_Virus, Shoe_Virus_B, Ashar_B, UIUC, UIUC-B, @BRAIN, Jork, Shoe B %%Platform: PC/MS-DOS %%Type: Boot sector., %%Disk Location: Floppy disk boot sector. %%Features: Memory resident; TSR. %%Damage: Corrupts boot sector, Interferes with a running application., Corrupts a data file., Corrupts the file linkages or the FAT., Corrupts a program or overlay files. %%Size: Overlays boot sector, no increase %%See Also: %%Notes: This virus only infects the boot sectors of 360 KB floppy disks. It does no malicious damage, but bugs in the virus code can cause loss of data by scrambling data on diskette files or by scrambling the File Allocation Table. It does not tend to spread in a hard disk environment. Diskette volume labels changeto "(c) Brain".