What is the Julykiller Word Macro virus?
A. From http://linuxtoday.com/stories/7280.html ComputerWorld: ‘July Killer’ virus may hit Thursday Jul 1st, 13:51:39 Another Microsoft Word macro virus; this one has the potential to erase a user’s C: drive “A computer virus dubbed July Killer is expected to strike July 1. Active only during July, it will infect Microsoft Corp.’s Word 97 documents via a Visual Basic macro, according to antivirus specialists.” “During July, users who open an infected Word document will see a dialog box entitled ‘A wake up call for the generation.’ If the user clicks the OK button, a message will appear that says, ‘You are wise, please choose this again later. Congratulations.’ ” “If the user chooses the ‘cancel’ button three times… The virus will then open the autoexec.bat file and add the command line ‘deltree/y c:\’ to the file.
