W97M/Groov.A

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  • Virus consists of one macro module named either "groovie" or "orbit"
  • Virus hooks Word event handlers which prevents the printing, opening, closing and saving of infected documents, or exiting Word
  • In a one in five chance, virus will attempt to save host IP information as "c:\ip.txt", then send this file using FTP to "complex.is" to the "incoming" directory

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