X97M/Laroux.E

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  • Virus hooks Excel event handler which prevents the opening of infected files in order to run its code
  • Virus exists in a code module named "pldt"
  • Virus verifies if it has infected the Excel environment by searching for the file
    "PLDT.XLS" in the XLStart folder - if the file does not exist, a new workbook is created, infected and then saved as "PLDT.XLS" in the XLStart folder

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