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Joke-Elite
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Joke
- Discovery Date
- 05/20/2005
- Minimum DAT
- 4496 (05/20/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 4682 (01/25/2006)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 05/20/2005
- Description Modified
- 09/30/2005 1:00 AM (PT)
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Characteristics
This is a practical joke program. It is not a trojan or virus.
It is considered as a Potentially Unwanted Program
File: wow.exe
Hash: 32b0115d25c1a92e8550638f23cf9ab1
Executing this program will pop up the following series of message boxes.
Clicking OK on this message box will hide all the desktop items.
Clicking OK on this message box will hide the task bar.
Clicking OK on this message box will open the CD tray.
Clicking OK on this message box will close the CD tray.
Clicking OK on this message box will place the mouse pointer in the centre of the screen.
Clicking OK on this message box will restore the desktop items and the task bar and the program terminates.
This program can be terminated through the option in task manager to end the process OR by rebooting the system, which will cause the program to be removed from memory.
This program does not create any files or registry entries for loading at startup.
Detection of this type of program is not activated by default.
Users who would like to check for the presence of this kind of files on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
To enable the automatic detection of such programs - see removal instructions
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