Summary
This is an encrypted virus which contains antidebug-tricks. Hidenowt stays resident in memory and infects COM and EXE files when they are executed. Virus infects C:\COMMAND.COM on the first run.
Hidenowt contains no activation routines. It uses text 'Yx' as infection marker.
Hidenowt has been reported to be in the wild.
Disinfection & Removal
Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.
For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.
Description Created: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure
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