Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Word Perfect and change checkers (PC?) Message-ID: <0007.9102061308.AA27330@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Feb 91 14:46:03 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 20 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu hampster@wyatt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kip J Mussatt) writes: =>If I am understanding you correctly, WP 4.2 and later versions should =>be virus proof? Not true! - We've had an Invader infection here on DIKU (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen) and it infected both WP.EXE and PTR.EXE of version 5.1 without problems, and both programs did run after infection! It did ask if another copy of WP was running, but otherwise nothing. Happy (virus)hunting! Per. - -- | Per Gotterup | "The most merciful thing in the | | Student, DIKU (Dept. of Comp. Sci.) | world, I think, is the inability | | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | of the human mind to correlate all | | Internet: ballerup@freja.diku.dk | its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft - |