Alerts January 2000

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Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in January 2000

Position

Last
month

Malware

Percentage of reports

1

1

23.6%

2

7

8.7%

3=

New

5.5%

3=

10

5.5%

5

4

WM97/Thursday

3.9%

6=

New

3.2%

6=

Re-entry

WM97/Melissa-AG

3.2%

8=

Re-entry

W32/Ska-Happy99

2.4%

8=

New

WM97/RV-A

2.4%

8=

Re-entry

2.4%

Others

39.2%

This section helps you to understand how it behaves

XM97/Divi-A is an Excel spreadsheet macro virus. It creates a file called BASE5874.XLS in the Excel template directory, and will infect other spreadsheets as they are opened or closed.

The virus adds a flag, in the form of a variable called IVID plus a hexadecimal number, to each file as it is infected. The virus uses this flag to determine whether the spreadsheet has already been infected.

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