%%File: VIRS0432.TXT
%%Name/Aliases: Happy Halloween
%%Platform: PC/MS-DOS
%%Type: Program., 
%%Disk Location: COM application., EXE application.
%%Features: Direct acting.
%%Damage: Corrupts a program or overlay files.
%%Size: 10,000
%%See Also: 
%%Notes: Non resident, required minimum file size to infect, discovered 
Dec 1991 in British Columbia, CANADA
File infects on exection, appears to seek out single file for infection 
of length greater than xxxx bytes.  
Infected files grow by 10,000 decimal bytes.  Virus infects all files as 
if .exe - infected .com files will not execute properly. Virus may have 
at one time been compressed with LZEXE.  Embedded string ("All Gone") 
indicates file deletion/destruction may occur on Oct 31 of any year 
after 1991 or Dec 25.  COMMAND.COM infection will make floppy boot 
necessary. Not found by common scanners.  string: 6c6c6f7765656e55