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From: zlsiial@cs.man.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Odd 77-byte files (PC)
Message-ID: <0002.9105101443.AA06343@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 14:00:24 GMT
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Some utility on my PC (running MS DOS 3.3) has been creating several
hundred hidden files.  All had a filename of an existing COM or EXE
file, but with the corresponding extension ._OM or ._XE, and all were
77 bytes long.  The files are all deleted -- sorry not to have saved a
copy -- and no available virus scanning utility reports any odd files
anywhere.  Has anyone seen this elsewhere?

			A. V. Le Blanc
			Manchester Computing Centre
			University of Manchester
			ZLSIIAL@uk.ac.mcc.cms