OnScreen Symptoms: Between 12/24 and 1/1 will display a Christmas tree
on the screen.
Increase in Size of Infected Files: 1,539 bytes.
Nature of Damage: On April 1, running an infected program will destroy
the hard disk partition table.
Detected by: Scan v61+.
Removed by: Scan/D, or delete the infected files.
Derived from: apparently an original.
Discovered by Christoff Fischer, this virus displays the Christmas
tree on the screen when the system date is between December 24 and
January 1 and an infected program is executed. On April 1, it destroys
the partition table of the hard disk.
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