%%File: VIRS0670.TXT
%%Name/Aliases: Ripper
%%Platform: PC/MS-DOS
%%Type: Multipartite., 
%%Disk Location: Floppy disk boot sector., Hard disk boot sector., 
FORMAT.COM, SYS.COM, MORE.COM, UNFORMAT.COM
%%Features: Stealth
%%Damage: Attempts to format the disk.
%%Size: 
%%See Also: Jack-the-Ripper
%%Notes: This appears to be different from Jack-the-Ripper.

It lives in the boot sector of floppies and hard disk partition tables 
and infects four DOS
files :- FORMAT.COM, SYS.COM, MORE.COM, UNFORMAT.COM . 
On the sixteenth reboot,  it will reformat your hard drive.

Dr Solomons Tookit also detects Ripper
CPAV v 2 (due early '94) will detect it
 F-PROT