W97M/ColdApe

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W97M/ColdApe Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:
  
• Detected by virus detection files published: 4/18/2000 • Type: Virus
• Virus characteristics first published: 4/18/2000 • Spreading mechanism: File Infection
• Virus characteristics latest update: 12/17/2003 • Overall risk: Low
• Infection type: Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003  

Virus type Spreading
mechanism 		Destructivity
and payload 		Additional
descriptions 		Detection
and removal
W97M/ColdApe also drops another VBS program, C:\A4.vbs. If this program, which is not a virus, is executed, it will use MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express) and send an email message from the infected user to a former editor of Virus Bulletin magazine.
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