If you know of someone who should receive these alerts, please have them contact us and we will add them to the list. The following has been derived from information provided by Symantec, F-Secure and Network Associates. When this Trojan is first run, all third party application icons will disappear as if deleted. The files still exist, however their icon is now missing from the available applications icons. When a user tries to execute the application, the trojan is activated and modifies the application attributes so that they are hidden from view.
Recovery requires a hard reset and hot-sync.
This file is a trojan, not a virus, so it cannot replicate itself into any other files. On a PC, the Trojan will appear as a file Vapor.prc with a size of 741 bytes. This Palm OS trojan marks all installed Palm OS applications as hidden applications. Applications will appear to have been removed from the PDA device after running this Trojan either accidentally or intentionally. Delete any file which contains this detection.