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to: WILLIAM HARGRAVE
from: BRENDAN LAMBOURNE
date: 1997-06-26 00:17:00
subject: No-Frills Virus

 -=> Quoting William Hargrave to Brendan Lambourne <=-
 WH> Brendan Lambourne wrote to All in virus_info:
 
 BL> I have just finished cleanning the no-frills virus off my computer.
 
 BL> I just want to know what this virus does.
 
 BL> Can anyone supply information as to what this virus does, so that I
 BL> can understand this virus better.
 WH> From F-Prot:
 WH> Name: No Frills
 WH> Size: 843
 WH> Type: Resident  COM/EXE-files
 WH> Origin: Australia
 WH> Repair: Yes
 WH> No Frills is a resident file infector which infects both COM and EXE
 WH> files. 
 WH> So basically, it doesn't appear to do much other than spread.
But it has been doing something.  I had the virus appear twice on my system 
from a disk that I forgot to scan!!! and both times it didn't do anything
buit spread and destroy my WINHELP file.  Windows kept reporting a corrupt
WINHELP file and I had to reload it.
Any Ideas.
Cheers,
Brendan ;)
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