But they are downloading some infected files that, if passed around, could lead to disaster.

There it sits, activating itself after a certain date when the infected file is used.

The following text string is found in infected files:

The following text strings are found in infected files:

However one could see that infected files had their size increased with 1701 or 1704 bytes.

An increase in size of infected files by 2,048 bytes.

Opening the infected file resulted in infection of the target computer.

That is, each infected file contains a different variant of the virus.

When an infected file is executed, Alabama goes memory resident.

When the infected file is run, it displays a message in German.