It is a dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It searches for .COM files (except COMMAND.COM) and writes itself to the beginning of the file. It contains the internal text strings:
-< The Andromeda Strain >- Version 1.00 By : Crypt Keeper
Mission Completeall Have fun with your virus(es)
ANDROM.SEC *.COM
RUNME.COM COMMAND.COM
SCAN.EXE CLEAN.EXE NAV.EXE NAV_._NO
The first and the second strings are displayed when the virus creates the file RUNME.COM and executes it, the last string contains the names of the files which are deleted by the virus when the virus is executed.
