Malware type: Macro

Aliases: O97M.Tristate.C(Symantec), OF97/Crown-B(Sophos), Virus.MSOffice.Triplicate.c(Kaspersky), W97M/Tristate.AA(Avira), X97M/Tristate.C (exact)(F-Prot), X97M/Tristate.gen(McAfee)

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows

Encrypted: No

Description: 

This nondestructive, multi-platform macro virus works on Microsoft Office 97 and Office 2000 applications, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It uses Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) codes to infect Word documents, Excel sheets, and PowerPoint presentations and infect across these documents.

This macro virus disables macro virus protection on Word, Excel, and Powerpoint 97.

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Description created: Nov. 2, 2002 11:31:16 AM GMT -0800

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