Jimmy's hypothesis explains why there has not been a PowerPoint virus sooner. Speaking of which, anti-virus developer Trend Micro Inc has just announced the discovery of the first Access database virus. AccessiV for short, is wholly uninteresting aside from its claim to primacy. As the name implies, it infects Access 97 database files. The virus is not known to be in the wild, and is very unlikely ever to be so.
Modules consist of procedures, functions, class definitions or some combination thereof.
AccessiV consists of one macro, perhaps not surprisingly, called Autoexec and one module, inventively named Virus to throw you off the scent. The module is a hefty twenty-three lines of Visual Basic code, although it could have been written more economically, but with identical functionality, in six fewer. The virus' operation is something of a departure for macro viruses. On opening an AccessiV-infected database, Access runs the Autoexec macro. This performs four functions.