Joke.Apeldorn

Updated:

February 13, 2007 11:36:31 AM

Type:

Joke

Risk Impact:

Medium

File Names:

Compuclean.exe

Systems Affected:

Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP

Behavior

Joke.Apeldorn is a joke program that displays a series of dialog boxes with text in Dutch and distorts the screen image. Then, it pretends to restart the computer in MS-DOS mode and format the C: drive. However, it does not actually do any harm.

Symptoms

Your Symantec antivirus program detects this joke program as Joke.Apeldorn

Transmission

Joke.Apeldorn is usually a stand-alone executable and requires you to manually execute the program.

Antivirus Protection Dates

• Initial Rapid Release version January 9, 2004
• Latest Rapid Release version December 31, 2009 revision 002
• Initial Daily Certified version January 9, 2004
• Latest Daily Certified version December 31, 2009 revision 017
• Initial Weekly Certified release date January 14, 2004