Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!fc173108 From: fc173108@seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: re Windows "virus" (Was Cursor ...) Message-ID: <2291@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 31 Oct 90 21:23:44 GMT References: <90303.144132LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi> <2286@sparko.gwu.edu> <5574@hsv3.UUCP> Reply-To: fc173108@seas.gwu.edu () Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Lines: 13 In article <5574@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes: >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. Really? I don't think it did that to me, but then at the time, my win.ini was in a fluid state, i.e. I was setting up and doing weird things some maybe I didn't notice. If so then that's really screwed up. Iqbal