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Lamerman

Description Lamerman

It is a very dangerous memory resident multipartite virus. It infects the MBR of the hard drive and overwrites EXE files that are created or copied, i.e. the virus does not affect existing EXE files but newly created/modified files only.
When an infected file is executed the virus affects the MBR and halts the computer, while infecting the virus fools the BIOS virus protection by a simple keyboard trick. On rebooting the virus stays memory resident, hooks INT 13h and overwrites EXE files on writing to them.
The virus contains the text string:
Lamerman .01

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Macro.Word.Vampire

Description Macro.Word.Vampire

These are encrypted macro viruses. They contain six or seven macros depending on the version:
"Vampire.a" (6 macros): AutoOpen, ZlockMacro, FileTemplates, AutoClose, ToolsMacro, Vampire
"Vampire.b" (7 macros): AutoOpen, AutoExec, ZlockMacro, FileTemplates, AutoClose, ToolsMacro, Vamp
They infect the global macros area on opening an infected document (AutoOpen). The files get infection on closing (AutoClose). While infecting the virus creates two temporary macros ORG and New.
While opening a file (AutoClose) or entering Tools/Macro menu the virus depending on random counter erases files on C: drive.
On entering the Tools/Macro menu the virus displays the MessageBox:
WordBasic Err = 7
_____ , ______ .

Macro.Word.Vanoce

Description Macro.Word.Vanoce

This macro virus contains seven macros:
Documents: Pismo, AutoExec, AutoOpen, AutoClose, AutoOpenA, ToolsMacro,
FileTemplates
NORMAL.DOT: AutoOpen, AutoExec, AutoOpenA, AutoClose, Pismo, ToolsMacro,
FileTemplates

It infects the global macros area on opening an infected document (AutoOpen), and writes itself to documents that also are opened. On December 24th virus displays the message:
Vesel© V¡noce a "ªastní Noví rok!

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