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Overview

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• WDEF-C

Characteristics

This is a parasitic virus for Apple Macintosh computers. It hits WDEF resource in the System and application files.

This virus is not related to WDEF virus family but some antivirus products call it WDEF-C.

Symptoms

The virus carries "temp flag" string at the end of WDEF 0 resource.

Method of Infection

Spreads by inserting its body ($1496 bytes) into the WDEF 0 resource.

Removal

Please use the latest updates of Virex for cleaning. If this threat is detected on a Macintosh please use Virex to repair it.

If the infected object was found on a non-Apple file server it can be cleaned using Virex from a Macintosh client.

Infected Emails (usually in BinHex format) will be currently either deleted or quarantined depending on the configuration of mail scanner. Quarantined mails should be transferred to a Macintosh and cleaned using Virex.

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• WDEF-C

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This is a parasitic virus for Apple Macintosh computers. It hits WDEF resource in the System and application files.

This virus is not related to WDEF virus family but some antivirus products call it WDEF-C.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

The virus carries "temp flag" string at the end of WDEF 0 resource.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Spreads by inserting its body ($1496 bytes) into the WDEF 0 resource.

Removal -

Removal -

Please use the latest updates of Virex for cleaning. If this threat is detected on a Macintosh please use Virex to repair it.

If the infected object was found on a non-Apple file server it can be cleaned using Virex from a Macintosh client.

Infected Emails (usually in BinHex format) will be currently either deleted or quarantined depending on the configuration of mail scanner. Quarantined mails should be transferred to a Macintosh and cleaned using Virex.

Variants

Variants -

N/A