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Westwood | |
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Technical name | Jerusalem.Westwood |
Alias | Jeru.Westwood.1829 Jerusalem-Westwood |
Type | DOS |
Subtype | DOS file infector |
Classification | Computer virus |
Family | Jerusalem |
Origin | Unknown |
Authors | Unknown |
Westwood is a computer virus, a variant of the Jerusalem family, discovered August 1990, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. The virus was isolated by a UCLA engineering student who discovered it in a copy of the "speed.com" program distributed with a new motherboard. Viral infection was first indicated when an early version of Microsoft Word reported internal checksum failure and failed to run.