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: DJGPP viruses (Re: HELP! "invalid page exception"??)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:30:50 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Tony Welsh wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't think that a virus scanner would interfere with a
> > compile, I could understand if the program was running and doing
> > some low level commands and then it fails, but not a compile.

Low level like writing to (infecting) an executable file?

> Antivirus sits on the Windows program invocation chain and checks
> every program that is invoked.

Antivirus software can also check for writing to EXE files,
which the linker does, and all viruses but boot sector
viruses also do. I believe this was called VSafe.

> So it could interfere with program invocation,
> especially since DJGPP programs are not
> real-mode DOS executables.

They aren't, and DOS viruses can't infect them, but some
viruses are specially designed to infect COFF binaries
produced by DJGPP's linker.

Damian Yerrick
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