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From: jmorriso@fs0.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Viruses
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Date: 6 Aug 90 19:32:51 GMT
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Reply-To: jmorriso@fs0.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of B.C.
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Don't panic, I haven't discovered any Windows viruses yet, but I have a word
of caution, even if you do use a virus scanner.

My virus scanner, scan by Macafee by default only seems to look at .exe and
.com files. Fine for DOS but a lot of shareware/pd programs also use .dll
libraries. .drv files also have executable code and if I'm not mistaken,
.fon font files can have code too (I'm just guessing, since they have the
message "This program requires Microsoft WIndows" in them)

IF your virus checker looks at all files, then I guess there is no problem.
BUt should any Windows specific viruses show up, they won't find them
anyway.

If anyone disagrees, I'd like to know; it seems that if anything that has executable
code in it, it is a source of dangera.

John Paul Morrison