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echo: virus_info
to: MIKE SIMM
from: PAUL WALKER
date: 1997-04-26 23:25:00
subject: VIRUSES

Hi Mike,
Mike Simm to Paul Walker, 14 Apr 97 20:40.
 ->> way to crash your computer extremely quickly. There are major
 ->> structural differences between .exe and .com files, you know.
 MS>  Thats how Companion Virus's Work. Such as AidsII
While I was wrong, so are you. :) Companion viruses work by subverting the
"execution chain" - DOS executes .COM files in preference to .EXE files, so 
the
virus makes a .COM file of the same name.
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