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From: p1@rlyeh.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: WP viri and bugs (PC)
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Date: 22 Dec 90 20:55:39 GMT
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GOODWIN@SMCVAX.BITNET (Dave Goodwin) writes:

> I have seen several mentions of possible virii on WordPerfect.  Let me
> add my two cents...

Oh, how true.

I remember a submission some time back that asked about files which,
regardless of document length, only stored a few bytes of garbage.  I
recently had that happen, and I'm sure it's just a bug.

The problem I encountered was that Word Perfect version 5.0, when
saving to 4.2 format (one of the options under <ctrl>F5) will save an
eight byte file *and erase the previous version, not just rename the
file* if the "backup" options are turned on.

Let me say that, while Word Perfect is *still* currently my editor
(and disk manager:) of choice, the discovery of this bug lost me four
daus work on the reviews of FPROT and Anti-Virus Plus. :(