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Virus.MSWord.Hilight

Alert Level :	High
Discovered:	Mar 07 2000
Tag:	Macro   Viruses
Discoverer and Source:	http://www.kaspersky.com/

Malware Behavior and Technical Description

This is an encrypted macro virus. It contains two macros that have different names in documents and NORMAL.DOT:

Documents  NORMAL.DOT
AutoOpen   AutoExec
PrezentIt  FileSaveAs

The virus infects the system on AutoOpen call and writes itself to documents on FileSaveAs call. The virus creates a counter in system profiles (WIN.INI) file:

[WINDOWS]
Count=0

The virus increases this counter on each AutoExec, and when the counter reaches 10, the virus changes the Windows palette colors.

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Removal Virus.MSWord.Hilight instructions:

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