Virus Database

Career Family

Description Career Family

These are harmless memory resident parasitic viruses. They hook INT 21h and write themselves to the end of COM-files that are executed. These viruses infect the file if the first instruction of it is JMP (E9h) instruction. The 3th and 4th bytes of infected file are the word "UK". These viruses also contain the internal text string: "tenUKCareer of Evil".

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Macro.Word.DarkSide

Description Macro.Word.DarkSide

This is not a dangerous encrypted Word macro virus. It is related to the "MDMA" virus. It contains four macros: AutoClose, DarkSide1, HerramMacro, ToolsMacro. It infects the documents and the global macros area on AutoClose call.
The virus disables Tools/Macro menu (Herram/Macro in Spanish). It creates on disks the DARKSIDE.1 files and writes the texts to there:
ATENCION: esta computadora ha sido infectada!. DarkSide1 sin una
computadora es como Billy The Kid sin un revolver! ! . . . Virus DarkSide1
creado en la ciudad de Lima en enero de 1997 -=] DarkSide1 Is a peruvian
virus writer [=-

The virus also contains the REMarked comments:
DarkSide1 is in the wild!!! :-)
DarkSide1's E-Mail: virology@usa.net
DarkSide1's live in Peru!!

Macro.Word.DarkSide.b
This encrypted virus contains three macros: AutoClose, DarkSide1B, HerramMacro. It creates the DARKSIDE.NEW file in current directory on C: drive and writes the text to there:
DarkSide1 is Back!!
The name of this macrovirus is DarkSide1.B
Caro's name Dark.A ?! Caro Sucks!! :)
And rememberall DarkSide1 whitout a computer is like...
Billy the Kid without a gun!! :)
WM.DarkSide1.B] by DarkSide1 in Lima Peru 1997

The HerramMacro macro contain the texts:
it's only a clean macro :) very easy !!
DarkSide1 is Cool Macro Virus Writer :)
I like the macrovirii scene...rocks!! :)

Macro.Word.Date

Description Macro.Word.Date

This macro virus was written in Italy. It contains the automatic macro AutoOpen, by which it infects documents and the NORMAL.DOT template. The macro AutoOpen is encrypted (i.e. it is not directly modifiable). Besides the Main subroutine - inside macros it is present on default - the virus contains two other subroutines:
Infezione (Infection)
Effetti (Payload)

Before running the "Infezione" and "Effetti" subroutines, Word.Macro.Date checks the system date. If the year is < 1997 and month is < 6, the virus runs the infection routines, otherwise it aborts its operations.
Word.Macro.Date seems to work correctly also on the English version of Word.
The "Effetti" routine tries to delete the macro AutoClose from templates (disinfects "Divina" macro virus?).

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