%%File: VIRS0707.TXT
%%Name/Aliases: Smeg, Pathogen, Queeg
%%Platform: PC/MS-DOS
%%Type: Program., 
%%Disk Location: EXE application., COM application.
%%Features: Memory resident; TSR., Polymorphic
%%Damage: Overwrites sectors on the Hard Disk.
%%Size: 
%%See Also: Junkie
%%Notes: Smeg and its variants are memory resident,  polymorphic COM and 
EXE infectors.  
The Pathogen variant overwrites part of your disk drive between the 
hours of 17:00 and 18:00 on Monday evenings. It then prints the 
follwoing message:

Your hard-disk is being corrupted, courtesy of PATHOGEN! 
   Programmed in the U.K.  (Yes, NOT Bulgaria!) [C] The Black Baron 
1993-4. 
     Featuring SMEG v0.1:  Simulated Metamorphic Encryption Generator! 
       'Smoke me a kipper, I`ll be back for breakfast.....' 
         Unfortunately some of your data won`t!!!!! 


 The author of SMEG is spending 15 months in jail for computer misuse.

McAfee SCAN incorrectly detects SMEG in the Windows NT system file 
NTIO.SYS.