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Virus.MSWord.Hilight

Alert Level : High
Discovered: Mar 07 2000
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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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