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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Virus in Text Files (Mac)
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Date: 10 Apr 90 00:19:57 GMT
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Macintosh datafiles, as I understand them, have 2 parts, a resource
fork and a data fork.  Anything in resource fork (so I've been told)
can execute.  Does this imply that one could bury a virus in the
resource fork of a data file?

I'm sure that this has been hashed over before.
Cheers
Woody