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From: martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 & the WDEF virus
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Date: 5 Feb 90 14:27:21 GMT
References: <1990Feb3.081030.28525@athena.mit.edu>
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Organization: Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab, SUNY at Buffalo
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*** In article <1990Feb3.081030.28525@athena.mit.edu>,
*** mlbarrow@athena.mit.edu (Michael L Barrow) writes:
***

>If you have a WDEF virus on your Mac and it starts to bother Word,
>you'll definitely know it!  What usually happens is that you will run
>
>I am still not sure of the extent of WDEF attacks. I originally heard
>that it just made Desktop way too large, but judging from experience,
>I'm betting that that's not the only thing it does.
>
>*** By the way, I don't know of any other conflicts/attacks on other
>packages.......yet. :-( ***
>
>


Wdef also wreaks havoc with multifinder on an SE, had a system that would flash
the menu bar indefinately when you called up about the finder when under
multifinder and would redraw a window when you double clicked on white space
It was  really weird to watch.  Once Wdef was eliminated it cleared every-
thing up.  By the way, Wdef doesn't cause a very large increase in the
desktop file, it just resides there and only takes upp a few K.



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