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From: fc173108@seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: re Windows "virus" (Was Cursor ...)
Summary: What! A virus!  Are you sure!
Message-ID: <2286@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 22:18:06 GMT
References: <90303.144132LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi>
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Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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In article <90303.144132LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi> LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi writes:
>Hello netreaders

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>   I read (from NetNews) that there might be (troyan) virus in Curse.
>   (I am not sure about the name, but it is mousecursor changer.)
>
>   The article said that there was some suspicious stuff in prg code,
>   connected with HD partition tables.
>
>   Curse will be real curse if it will mix your HD partition table.
>
>   I hope i am not right.           Have a nice day and sleep well,

I don't think you are.  I've been using the Curses program from cica
for about a month and have had *no* problems with it.  My hard disk is
still intact and I do sleep well (well, not after thinking about this
virus thing).  

I ask the author of the original author to please find out which
program was being talked about.

As to Curses modifying WIN.INI:  if you think about it, how else would
a program "install" itself to run when Windows starts up?  Just think
about it.  Sure maybe it should have explicitly said so but come on...

Iqbal