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Joke-OpenCloseCD

Type
Program
SubType
Joke
Discovery Date
05/12/2005
Length
73,728 bytes
Minimum DAT
4490 (05/12/2005)
Updated DAT
5663 (07/01/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/12/2005
Description Modified
05/24/2005 3:04 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

This is a practical joke program. It is not a trojan or virus.

Executing this program will make the CD/DVD drive door to open and close repeatedly untill the program is manually terminated.

This program does not create any new files or registry entries for loading at startup.

This program can be terminated through the option in task manager to end the program OR by rebooting the system, which will cause the program to be removed from memory.

File: CD.EXE
Hash: 50ec081477cafaa9b2b86019b58c4e89

Symptoms

N/A  Not a virus or trojan

Method of Infection

N/A  Not a virus or trojan

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This is a practical joke program. It is not a trojan or virus.

Executing this program will make the CD/DVD drive door to open and close repeatedly untill the program is manually terminated.

This program does not create any new files or registry entries for loading at startup.

This program can be terminated through the option in task manager to end the program OR by rebooting the system, which will cause the program to be removed from memory.

File: CD.EXE
Hash: 50ec081477cafaa9b2b86019b58c4e89

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A  Not a virus or trojan

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A  Not a virus or trojan

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

    N/A