Malware type: Trojan

Aliases: Trojan.Win32.DelFiles.y (Kaspersky), Del-476 (McAfee), Trojan.Deleall (Symantec), TR/DelFiles.Y (Avira), Troj/Delfiles-Q (Sophos),

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: Yes

Language: English

Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Description: 

This Trojan tries to delete all files and subfolders in the following folders:

• C:\Program Files
• C:\Documents and Setting
• C:\Windows\System32
• C:\Windows

It traverses all drives, from C to Z, then attempts to delete three subfolders aside from the ones mentioned above.

It also creates many instances of the Microsoft Outlook application.

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Description created: May. 19, 2005 3:30:39 AM GMT -0800

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