W32/Elkern.A

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W32/Elkern.A Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:
  
• Detected by virus detection files published: 11/5/2001 • Type: Virus
• Virus characteristics first published: 11/5/2001 • Spreading mechanism: Network, File Infection, Other
• Virus characteristics latest update: 12/17/2003 • Overall risk: Medium
• Alias: • Payload: File destruction
• Infection type: Microsoft Windows 95/98/98 SE/ME/NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista  

Virus type Spreading
mechanism 		Destructivity
and payload 		Additional
descriptions 		Detection
and removal
The virus will trigger a payload on the 13th of every March and September, which will destroy files on local and network disks the virus has access to.

The payload may also be triggered outside of these dates, but the chance of that is small, since it is based on one single outcome of a pseudo-random routine capable of generating 65536 results.
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