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F-Secure Malware Information Pages: Lagob.A
[Summary] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]

Name : Lagob.A
Alias:MLS/Lagob.A, Virus.Matlab.Gabol.a, Bagoly, MatLabScript/Lagob.A, MATL_BAGOLY.A
Type:Virus
Category:Malware
Platform:MatLabScript
Date of Discovery:April 22, 2006
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Summary
Lagob.A is a simple proof-of-concept script virus written in Matlab. It infects Matlab (.m) files.
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Detailed Description
The Lagob.A virus looks for Matlab files (.m) in the current folder. When it find such files, it tries to infect them by writing its code line by line on top of the file, i.e by prepending its code to the existing .m file. To avoid infecting a file multiple times, the virus uses an infection marker and does not try to infect already infected files. The virus does not have any payload or visual effects.
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Detection

F-Secure Anti-Virus detects this malware with the following updates:

[FSAV_Database_Version]

Version = 2006-04-24_03.
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Last Modified: April 28, 2006