Sophos

W95/Spaces

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from February 2000 (3.30)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

Please read the instructions for disinfecting PE executable viruses.

As this virus is not active in Windows NT/2000/XP there is no need to shut down any programs or services when disinfecting it.

More Information

W95/Spaces infects executable files (*.EXE).

On the 1st of June the virus overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with a sector containing no executable code, but a corrupt partition table. This means the hard disk will not boot up successfully until the MBR is repaired.

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