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Published Apr 21, 2009 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

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Virus:W97M/Thus.FP

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: W97M/Thus.gen (McAfee) W97M_THUS (Trend Micro) W97M/Thus.A (ESET) W97M.Thus.A (Symantec) Virus.MSWord.Thus.ew (Kaspersky)

Summary

Virus:W97M/Thus.FP is a Microsoft Word VBA Class module virus that infects Microsoft Word 97 (and higher versions) documents and templates. On December 13th, this virus attempts to delete all files and subdirectories on C: drive.

Scan with antivirus software

Virus:W97M/Thus.FP infects document files and templates used on an infected computer. To clean these files, you must run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product. Several companies provide antivirus software for this purpose. For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/vista.mspx.

Virus:W97M/Thus.FP

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Scan with antivirus software

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