Virus.MSWord.TheEraser

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The virus contains two macros: AutoOpen, TheEraser. It replicates on documents opening (AutoOpen).

On the 5th of any month it erases the files:

C:\Windows\*.exe
C:\Windows\*.com
C:\Windows\*.sys
C:\Dos\*.exe
C:\Dos\*.com
C:\Dos\*.sys
C:\Dos\*.exe
C:\*.com
C:\*.sys

Then it inserts the following text into the current document:

You've just been erased!!!
- The Eraser

The virus also contains the comments:

The Eraser Word 95 Virus
designed this 17th day of April, 1998
at 10:30 in the evening
here in the country of the Philippines