L has the same structure as Astia. A except that it does not contain the user form and its associated VBA code. As with its predecessor, this virus should only infect the normal template of Word 97 SR-1 and later versions of Word, failing to spread from there to user documents. The payloads from Astia. A are present in this variant, except for the complex one involving the user form.
None are overtly malicious.
It shares the Alt-M keystroke assignment to the internal ToolsMacro command, allowing the virus' ToolsMacro macro to be bypassed.