Selected viruses, spyware, and other threats: sorted alphabetically
W97M/Thus.EP |
W97M/Thus.EP is a macro virus operating in the Microsoft Word 97 environment. It uses the "class" method of infection – it attacks the module "ThisDocument" which is present as a standard in each Word document or template. It attacks the global template normal.dot and Word documents. It is derived from W97M/Thus.A.
Upon opening an infected document W97M/Thus.EP attacks the global template and the active document. After infecting the template the virus attacks all documents while they are being opened and new documents. Unlike W97M/Thus.A this variant uses to mark infected documents by means of a note with text 'Matrix' instead of the text 'Thus_001'.
Apart from attacking documents and templates the virus W97M/Thus.EP has no other manifestation. It does not cause deleting of files on the disk as the version W97M/Thus.A does.
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