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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: re Windows "virus" (Was Cursor ...)
Message-ID: <5574@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 17:23:08 GMT
References: <90303.144132LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi> <2286@sparko.gwu.edu>
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <2286@sparko.gwu.edu> fc173108@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>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...

The thing that bothered me was that I had several programs mentioned in
my "load" line.  When I installed Curse, it didn't bother to read in
the list that was already there and add itself.  Rather, it just wrote
out "load = curse.exe", blasting all the other programs which were there.

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me."
							- Dr. Who, _Shada_
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