W97M/Thus.C
Analysis
- 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
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On December 13th of any year, virus searches for all files in all subdirectories and attempts to delete them