W97M/Suppl is a worm the was posted to several newsgroups at September 17th, 1999. It spreads itself as an email worm, with an attachment file called Suppl.doc.Suppl contains a destructive payload.
Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either move the file to the quarantine where it cannot spread or cause harm, or remove it.
A False Positive is when a file is incorrectly detected as harmful, usually because its code or behavior resembles known harmful programs. A False Positive will usually be fixed in a subsequent database update without any action needed on your part. If you wish, you may also:
Check for the latest database updates
First check if your F-Secure security program is using the latest updates, then try scanning the file again.
Submit a sample
After checking, if you still believe the file is incorrectly detected, you can submit a sample of it for re-analysis.
Note: If the file was moved to quarantine, you need to collect the file from quarantine before you can submit it.
Exclude a file from further scanning
If you are certain that the file is safe and want to continue using it, you can exclude it from further scanning by the F-Secure security product.
Note: You need administrative rights to change the settings.
Variant:Suppl.A
When the attached Word 97 document is opened, the macro code executes. It copies the active document to Windows directory as "Anthrax.ini". Then decompresses a trojanized version of "Wsock32.dll" that is appended to the end of the document, "Suppl.doc".Before the system is rebooted, there is three visible files in the Windows directory: "DLL.lzh", "DLL.tmp" and "wininit.ini". After the system has been rebooted, "DLL.tmp" replaces "Wsock32.dll" and the original "Wsock32.dll" is renamed as "Wsock33.dll". "DLL.lzh" (compressed ".dll") and "wininit.ini" are deleted.Then the worm will attach itself to every SMTP email message sent from an infected user's machine as "Suppl.doc".The worm DLL renamed to WSOCK32.DLL being started first tests if it is already installed and activated. If yes it checks current system time and if there passed more than 6 days 18 hours 59 minutes 18 seconds 964 milliseconds after its first installation to system the payload routine is activated. The worm first gets all available drives list with GetLogicalDriveStringsA function and then filters out only fixed disks after performing GetDriveType function. Then the worm scans all filtered drives for the files having the following extensions:
DOC XLS TXT RTF DBF ZIP ARJ RAR
and truncates these files like ExploreZip worm does. The worm calls CreateFileA function on an existing file and then closes it immediately. As a result all the affected files will be truncated to zero bytes and will be unrecoverable.