No text strings are visible within the viral code in infected programs.

The virus will be located at the beginning of infected programs.

For example: The newly infected program may no longer fit into the computer's memory.

The infection process may not work correctly, and keep the infected program from executing correctly.

When the infected program is run, all seems fine until the virus is executed.

All infected programs then become "contagious," and the virus covertly passes to other computers.

The virus destroys information every 16th time an infected program is run.

Whenever the infected program is run, the virus reproduces and tries to infect other computers.

If a user attempts to launch an infected program, the virus' code may be executed simultaneously.

It was reported that one infected program displayed the following message when run: