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Hopper

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Virus

Aliases:

  • Hopper

Summary

Hopper virus infects .VBS files and Word documents, as well as HTML files. VBS/Hopper.A infects other .VBS files by prepending it's code to the original file.

Removal

Technical Details

Some variants of this virus family also infect HTA and HTT files. Some of them lower the security settings of IE's zones. To ensure that the virus works on all platforms, when infecting VBS and DOC files, it comments out the HTML-specific part of itself. It infects documents when closes them.

Some variants of VBS/Hopper are able to infect Excel files as well.

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