[PEN-L:9375] Re: How to handle virus?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Durgin wrote:

>That is was infected came as quite a surprise to  me.  I do a McAfee scan
>virtually every day, and have never had a virus reported.
>
>As It will be a couple of weeks before I can get any help 'from the
>mainland", I wonder if anyone could offer some advice to this computer
>novice on how to handle it.

Norton Anti-Virus said it's W97M.Marker.A. Here's what the Symantec
Anti-Virus site says about it (they don't say how to repair it, short
of buying their product):

VirusName:	W97M.Marker.A
Aliases:	None
Infection Length:	N/A
Likelihood:	common
Target Platform:	Application macros

Description:
This virus infects Microsoft Office document/spreadsheet files. This
virus has been found "in the wild" (i.e. outside of labs). This virus
propagates identical copies of itself. It does not employ any
"stealthing" mechanisms. In most cases, document files infected with
the W97M.Marker.A virus can be fully repaired.

Additional Comments:
This Word97 macro virus keeps a log of time of infection, name and
address as set in Word97. This log is then uploaded to
codebreakers.org ftp site.