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W32/Marjor-A

Mar 15, 2004 3:52AM PST

Aliases
Trojan.Win32.Marjor, W95/Marjor.A, W32/Marjor.worm, Win32/Major.A, WORM_MARJOR.A

Type
Win32 executable file virus

Description
W32/Marjor-A is an overwriting virus that copies itself to the Windows folder as SysImpReadMe.exe.
W32/Marjor-A modifies several registry entries in order to associate certain file extensions with itself. When a file with an appropriate extension is executed, W32/Marjor-A overwrites the file with itself and displays the following error message:

"This computer has no program to read <extension> Files.
Please try opening this file to other computer"


Read more: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32marjora.html

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