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From: jkelly@violet.berkeley.edu (John Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: WP viruses (PC)
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Date: 8 Dec 90 05:40:16 GMT
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SSAT@PACEVM.BITNET (Jean F. Coppola) writes:
>Does anyone know of a WordPerfect virus that the document duplicates
>itself within the document and if you try to go to the end of the
>document it takes a very long time and then goes to the top of the
>document...I have seen this happen 3 times to 3 people in the last
>couple of days and was wondering if such a virus exists?

I wonder, too.  I have seen this and another strange thing with
WordPerfect:  floppy disks' FATs get completely scrambled.  It
could be user error, but at least some of the half-dozen users
I've seen this happen to are too competent to pull this sort of
screwup on their own.

You don't mention what version of WP you're using or what the
overall environment is.  Our problems started with the
installation of WP 5.1 on a Novell Netware LAN.  SCAN has not
turned up anything.  WP being the hog it is, and somewhat new to
the network world, I more than half suspect that this is a
memory-allocation bug in WP.  Or else it's user error.   As I
told a user's group the other day, the only way we'll find out
is by all of us taking notes and sharing them.