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Subject: re:WP Virus? (PC)
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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?

jkelly@violet.berkeley.edu (John Kelly) writes

>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.

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I have also run into the same problem with WP5.1 files.  I think the
problem is a crosslink problem.  I read in the most recent VIRSUM that
there is the 4096 virus that can cause this type of problem but
checking with McAfee's Scan v7.1 I find there is no virus present.  I
am curious if there seems to be a problem with WP5.1 itself.  I know
of another person with the same problem.  I am curious if John or Jean
operates WP5.1 under Windows 3.00?  I have a hunch that maybe wp5.1
and Windows do not seem to get along too well.  But then this is with
any real basis, this is just a thought.

RONALD HAHM
ISCSVAX.UNI.EDU