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Whitehand | |
Threat Level DamageDistribution |
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| Common name: | Whitehand |
| Technical name: | Whitehand.1799 |
| Threat level: | Low |
| Type: | Virus |
| Effects: |
It carries out damaging actions on the affected computer.
It does not spread automatically using its own means.
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| Affected platforms:
| MS-DOS |
| First detected on: | June 10, 2004 |
| Detection updated on: | June 10, 2004 |
| Statistics | No |
Brief Description | |
Whitehand is a virus that spreads to other computers by copying its code to other files or programs. Whitehand does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc. Whitehand uses the following infection strategies: - Resident: once it has been run, the virus goes memory resident and stops functions belonging to the operating system. Therefore, every time the operating system or an application tries to access any of these functions, the virus will activate and infect new files.
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