VBS/Vipina...what is it?

[PrDeltoid]

So I got this user who, upon boot of her Win98 box, got a warning from McAfee that she was infected with "VBS/Vipina". The file infected was an .ini in the Network Associates directory on the local HDD (file was called 104.ini) and it was hidden. Deleting or cleaning it wouldnt work. I ran an upto date scan on her machine and on her home directory/network directories as well.

In the meantime I hit the 'net looking for more info. Hrmmm...nothing at trusty old www.antivirus.com. I hit McAfee's Virus Encyclopedia. NOTHING!? Hrmm. Sohpos nothing. Noroton zip. I was at my wits end. Google only came back with a readme.txt from McAfee saying that yes, their scanners picked it up, but that was it.

So, about this time the VScan finishes with no infectied items! Grrrr! I was back at square one! Rebooting sadly, only showed me normal operation (which I would normally be exstatic about). Heres, my questions for the uber brains out there:

1.) What the heck is VBS/Vipina? More so, what does it do?
2.) Anyone else come across this? And
3.) Should I be worried?

Like I said. Her machine is up-to-date now, both Security Patches and AntiVirus Dats. When she boots now, there are now warnings or anything.

Normally, I love it when stuff works, but not when theres a problem and then it disappears with out me knowing what happend, why it happend or anything like that! To many really bad problems start out that way.

Thanks in advance.
pr

[ADisturbance]

The link below should tell you what you want to know about that virus. It appears to be a script virus of some type.

https://www.ucalgary.ca/ftp/micros/d...x7/virlist.txt

[eboyjones]

If you scroll way down on this list it lists it as a script virus.

https://www.ucalgary.ca/ftp/micros/d...x7/virlist.txt

funny the Universtiy of Calgary has info but not McAfee.
But not how to remove it.

[Stalemate]

McAfee DAT Version 4312 lists it as of Dec. 31 2003.