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echo: virus_info
to: PAUL WALKER
from: PETER LOUWEN
date: 1997-04-18 21:21:00
subject: Re: VIRUSES

 -=> Quoting Paul Walker to Mike Simm <=-
 PW> Only if you're lucky. Doing that with most files would be a good way
 PW> to crash your computer extremely quickly. There are major structural
 PW> differences between .exe and .com files, you know.
Yes, one knows. However, his statement is correct, as DOS does *not* look at
the file's *extension* - instead it looks at their first two bytes.
If these are 'MZ' or 'ZM', it's considered an .EXE, otherwise it's a .COM
as far as DOS is concerned.
Peter
... Frankenstein was a body builder
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