Hiro is a not dangerous, non-memory resident parasitic virus written in Pascal. It is a 16 bit NE EXE file that also works under Windows 3.xx. The virus contains the text string:
Hiroshima end 000 v1.2000:0000
The virus looks for EXE-files in Windows directories and writes itself to the beginning of files. The directories 'Hiro' searches are:
C:WINDOWS
C:WINDOWSSYSTEM
The Hiro virus creates a list of files before infecting them. The file list location and name is as follows:
C:SETWIN.TMP
Each time an infected computer is started the virus changes the system date to:
August 5, 1995