Reference number: CH000108

Information on the E-Morph virus.

Issue:

Information on the E-Morph virus.

Solution:

The E-morph virus that is labeled as E-Morph, E-Morph-1696 and E-Morph 1696, infects MS-DOS .COM files, and currently is not known to be a widely spread virus.

The virus is 1696 bytes long and is memory resident. The virus is not capable of infecting floppy disks nor is it able to infect the hard disk drive boot record, and it is not encrypted in any way. E-Morph is not a destructive virus and can usually be easily removed by major virus scanners.