From: "Damian Yerrick" <mail DOT me DOT at DOT your DOT own DOT risk AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP viruses
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:10:53 -0500
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
news:199909151246 DOT IAA07501 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
>
> > They aren't, and DOS viruses can't infect them easily, but
> > some viruses are specially designed to infect COFF binaries
> > produced by DJGPP's linker.
>
> They are?  First I've heard of that.  Do you have more info?

This was a hypothetical situation. I haven't seen any such viruses
(I practice Safe Hex), but you may want to check the Network
Associates Inc. (McAfee) and Symantec (Norton AV) web sites
for the latest information.

Damian Yerrick
http://come.to/yerrick
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