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From: sigurd@chopin.udel.edu (Sigurd Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: WP viruses (PC)
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Date: 19 Dec 90 16:01:46 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 have seen this happen, but it seems due to a corrupted document,
not an infected program.  So it's NOT a virus (not by any definition
I know of), but the result of a problem WordPerfect has with a file
that's been corrupted in some (unclear exactly how) way.

I have been able to correct this in many cases (but not all if I
remember right) in one of two ways:

- -- using Norton Utilities to save the blocks containing the file
   up to close to, but not all the way to, the end; or
- -- in WordPerfect by (getting rid of extraneous or confusing embedded
   codes and) blocking from the start of the document to somewhere
   before the end of the file and saving that as a file.

(I'm not sure getting rid of the extraneous codes was necessary to
solving the problem - but doesn't hurt in any case.)

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