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WCE/Duts-A

Aliases
  • WinCE.Duts.a
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows Mobile
Protection available since 17 July 2004 17:42:08 (GMT)
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More Information

WCE/Duts-A is a proof-of-concept parasitic virus which infects EXE files for the
Pocket PC environment.

To spread between Pocket PCs infected EXEs would need to be exchanged manually.

However, WCE/Duts-A is not in the wild and is not a threat.

The virus attempts to display the following message when run:

Dear User, am I allowed to spread?

The virus contains the following message inside its body:

"This is proof of concept code. Also, i wanted to make avers happy.The
situation when Pocket PC antiviruses detect only EICAR file had to end ..."

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