F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Rendra

NAME:	Rendra
ALIAS:	Chiao

W97M/Rendra is Word 97 macro virus.

VARIANT: Rendra.A

When an infected document is opened, W97M/Rendra.A disables the macro virus protection and infects the global template.

After that every document that is closed will be infected.

When a new document is created, the virus inserts the following large green text to it:

    Microsoft vous souhaite la bienvenue !!!

The virus also adds the following green text to the active document when it is closed:

    Ciao!!!

Further, the virus shows a message box with the following text after September, 15th:

    Merci d'avoir utilis‚ ce bel outil qu'est M.S.WORDS !!!
    Bill GATES vous le rendra

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