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 (Re: HELP! "invalid page exception"??)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:53:39 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990915120355 DOT 27871S-100000 AT is...
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> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > DOS viruses can't infect [DJGPP programs].
>
> Not true.  Every DJGPP program has a short real-mode stub prepended
> to it.  As far as DOS (and DOS-based virus) is concerned, a DJGPP
> program is a very short real-mode program with lots of data attached
> to it.

But wouldn't this appended data confuse most viruses to
high heck?