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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!rrward
From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: virus in .wad
Message-ID: <rrwardCtwKp1.2D9@netcom.com>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <31jjet$rr2@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 10:19:48 GMT
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In article <31jjet$rr2@nic-nac.CSU.net> kbassil@nextlab18.calstatela.edu (Kristian Bassilios) writes:
> Please help me... I picked up some kind of virus in a wad file.
>Unfortunately, my anti-virus can't clean my system. Someone recommended
>pcscan to me, but I can't find it. If ypu can help please e-mail me at
>kbassil@calstatela.edu. Thanks...
>
> K. Bassilios
I don't know where you got the virus (are you _SURE_ you have a virus, what's
your system doing that makes you tthink it has a virus), but you did not get
it from a WAD. WAD files are data files, and as such cannot spread virus' on
DOS based machines. Period. In order for a virus to spread, it must be
installed into a program. There is nothing in the WAD file system that could
cause DOOM to birth a virus. Did you download any software (executable
programs) recently?
Richard