This page provides information about the Flor virus.

Virus information

01/31/2001 - The Flor virus is a memory resident trojan written in Visual Basic. The Visual Basic runtime files VBRUN500.DLL and higher are required for this program to function. Once the program is loaded into memory, every 60 seconds, it attempts to copy itself to “A:\Pornografia.exe” and to “c:\windows\menu iniciar\programas\iniciar" (Portuguese startup folder). Additionally, the trojan attempts to go to an URL in the www3.cybercities.com domain.

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Symptoms

Floppy drive activity regardless of the presence of a diskette.File Pornografia.exe being present on floppy diskettes or on the hard drive.

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