Summary

W97M/Panther is a Word 97 macro virus.

Additional Details

VARIANT:

Panther.A

W97M/Panther.A infects the global template when an infected document is opened. Then it disables the built-in macro virus protection.

After the global template has been infected, the virus infects all documents that are opened.

The virus does not do anything besides replication.

VARIANT:

Panther.I

This variant is functionally identical with W97M/Panther.A

VARIANT:

Panther.J

This variant is functionally identical with W97M/Panther.I

[Analysis: Katrin Tocheva and Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure]