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Updated:
- February 13, 2007 11:36:31 AM
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Type:
- Joke
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Risk Impact:
- Medium
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File Names:
- Compuclean.exe
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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
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Initial Rapid Release version January 9, 2004
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Latest Rapid Release version December 31, 2009 revision 002
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Initial Daily Certified version January 9, 2004
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Latest Daily Certified version December 31, 2009 revision 017
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Initial Weekly Certified release date January 14, 2004
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