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echo: virus_info
to: PAUL WALKER
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-04-13 12:15:00
subject: VIRUSES

-=> Quoting Paul Walker to Mike Simm <=-
-=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=<
MS>  If u rename exe to the com extension they still work.
pw> Only if you're lucky. Doing that with most files would be a good
pw> way to crash your computer extremely quickly. There are major
pw> structural differences between .exe and .com files, you know. 
But the type of file is not determined by the extension when it's
loaded and run, but by the file header.  Even if named .COM, it will
still have a .EXE header.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 13 Apr 12:17 
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