VIRUS - EOUG conference CD - Warning!!!!!!
Date: 1996/05/09
Message-ID: <4msb34$86t_at_newsserver.trl.OZ.AU>#1/1
People with EOUG Conference CD
Concept is a small, yet sophisticated program that attaches itself to Word documents. It is not particularly destructive, but can be annoying. The Concept virus creates a change with the "Save As" function. The user will not be able to choose the drive or the type of file when saving documents. The "TEMPLATES" radio button will be grayed. The macro will cause the document to behave as a template file. Upon infection, the virus will search for the macros, "Payload" and "FileSaveAs" among NORMAL.DOT templates. If either of these macros exist, Concept assumes that the system is already infected, and aborts. If neither of these files exist, it begins its infection process by copying its viral macros to the template and displaying a dialog box, which contains the number "1". Once a Macro virus is running, it can copy itself to other documents, delete files, and create general problems in a system. These things occur without the user explicitly running the macro. Once Concept is active on a system, it adds the following macros: AAAZAO, AAAZFS, and Payload. Two additional macros appear called "AutoOpen" and "FileSaveAs". If these macros existed previously, the contents will be changed. These macros can be viewed in the TOOLS, MACRO menu.
I only found out of after talking to someone from Australia that also attended the conference. What I found out was of the 4 CDs. Two had the virus detected. One played only music and the 4th did not detect the vires. That doesnot mean it is not there.
I would have been really pisXX XXX if that had affected all my document. The EOUG conference committee should really be more carefull about it. I home someone from the EOUG committee gets this message.
ta
tony
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