Westwood (computer virus)

Westwood
Technical nameJerusalem.Westwood
AliasJeru.Westwood.1829
Jerusalem-Westwood
TypeDOS
SubtypeDOS file infector
ClassificationComputer virus
FamilyJerusalem
OriginUnknown
AuthorsUnknown
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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.