NYB VIRUS

Information about the NYB virus:

This virus infects the boot sector of floppy disks and the partition table (MBR) of the hard disks. The virus infects the computer when booted with an infected disk. The virus infects the hard disk the first time it infects the computer. When the virus is active in the memory, it will be infecting the boot sector of all the floppy disks accessed.

NYB uses stealth techniques to hide its presence when it is in active in the memory. NYB virus randomly tries to move the floppy drive head to an invalid track and sector number.

NYB virus first appeared in 1994 and it is in the wild.

Other names of NYB virus:
This worm is also known as B1, Stoned.i and New York Beauty.