W97M/Thus.C

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  • Virus is practically identical to W97M/Thus.A in function, only some lines of code are commented
  • Virus consists of one macro module within the class storage
  • Virus hooks Word event handlers which prevents the closing of infected documents
  • Virus searches the macro storage of host files for the string

    "'Thus_001'"

    which exists in the virus body, as a means to determine if the host file is already infected

  • On December 13th of any year, virus searches for all files in all subdirectories and attempts to delete them

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