Virus Database

Dead.790

Description Dead.790

This is a dangerous memory-resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM files that are executed or opened. On Mondays, falling on the 7th, 15th, 23rd or 31st of the month, it erases hard disk sectors. The beginnings of infected files contain the word "DE", and the word "AD" occupies the last two bytes of the virus, i.e., the last two bytes of an infected file. These words are the name as the virus - "DEAD".

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Macro.Word.Wordde

Description Macro.Word.Wordde

This is a dangerous Word macro virus. It contains six macros: WordDE, AutoExec, FileOpen, FilePrint, FileSaveAs, AutoOpen (WordSU in NORMAL.DOT). It infects the system on opening an infected document (AutoOpen), it infects documents that are opened (FileOpen) and saved with new name (FileSaveAs).
The virus sets on the system timer a macro that shutdowns Word in a random selected time. On printing documents the virus replaces a string in Russian with new one. The virus creates the section in Windows profile (WIN.INI file):
[gay]
lox= <opened infected documents counter>

When counter reaches 5, the virus erases the COMMAND.COM file.

Macro.Word.Wordworm

Description Macro.Word.Wordworm

It is a dangerous Word macro virus. It contains three macros: AutoOpen, ArquivoAbrir, ArquivoSalvarComo. The virus infects the global macro area on opening an infected document (AutoOpen), and writes itself to documents on opening (ArquivoAbrir) and saving with new (ArquivoSalvarComo) name.
On February and April 30 the virus displays the MessageBox:
Alegria, vc sú perdeu todos os seus dados! (C) Worm _ root / 97
WordWorm Virus is fertilizing the soil of your HD (crashing lamah)!!
Copyright (c) - Worm _ root of VBB and Global Destruction Inc.
All rights reserved. H/P/C/CC .) /V/A. Brasil fev/97

The virus then formats the hard drive and inserts the text into the current document:
|/
(oo) WordWorm
(( )) help To MicroFuck
( _ ) by
( _ ) Worm_root
( _ ) Global Destruction Inc./VBB. No fears, no lamahs. Just us!
( _ ) The brasilian phrackers revenge. Your computer nightmare came true!

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