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Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in February 2000

Position Last
month
Malware Percentage of reports
1 1 WM97/Marker-A
   13.4%
2 Re-entry WM97/Marker-O
   12.9%
3 New Troj/Mine
   6.4%
3 3= XM97/Laroux
   6.4%
4 2 WM97/Ethan
   5.9%
5 5 WM97/Thursday
   5.4%
6 Re-entry W32/Pretty
   5.0%
7 8= W32/Ska-Happy99
   3.5%
8 New WM97/Broken
   2.0%
8 Re-entry WM97/Melissa
   2.0%
Others 37.1%

 

 

This section helps you to understand how it behaves

Yes, within Word environment.

 

WM97/Marker-A is a Word macro virus. The virus keeps a log of user addresses and machines names as comments at the bottom of the macro, which is updated on each new infection.

 

Many variants of WM97/Marker-A have a payload similar to WM97/Marker-C. As well as logging infections at the bottom of the macro, they FTP the user information to the Codebreakers hacking website.

 

Some variants of WM97/Marker-A do not FTP the information but instead have a payload similar to WM97/Ethan.

 

 

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