The main effect of Trivial.88.D is that it infects files with a COM extension, including the operating system command interpreter: COMMAND.COM.

Trivial.88.D follows the infection routine below:

• It searches for the executable files with a COM extension.
• It overwrites every infected file by adding its code to the beginning of them (so that the virus can not be eliminated). In order to eliminate the virus, the infected file must be deleted.
• When an infected file with a COM extension is run, the virus tries to infect other executable files with this extension.

Trivial.88.D does not use any specific means to spread. It can use any of the means normally used by viruses: floppy disks, CD-ROMs, e-mail messages with infected attachments, Internet downloads, FTP, etc.

Other interesting characteristics of Trivial.88.D are:

• The file that carries out the infection is 88 bytes in size.
• It contains the following text in its code:
  
  "Ride the wings of dead"