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From: pierson@ketje.enet.dec.com (Jacques Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Windows viruses
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Date: 30 Jan 91 17:17:09 GMT
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In article <6861@hsv3.UUCP>, jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes...
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>It seems to me that tradition MS-DOS viruses would fail to correctly
>modify Windows programs.  Does anyone know of a Windows program ever
>being virus-infected?
> 

I know of one case where a Yankee Doodle infected WIN.COM and KERNEL.EXE.
The net result was that the Windows opening screen came up and the user
was put back at the DOS prompt level.

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