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From: tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: virus in .wad
Date: 3 Aug 1994 18:18:37 +0100
Organization: Mantis Consultants Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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References: <31jjet$rr2@nic-nac.CSU.net> <rrwardCtwKp1.2D9@netcom.com> <31o9va$rhi@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
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In article <31o9va$rhi@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>,
Richie Lai <ind00560@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
>Couldn't someone modift the doom executable and add some code to the
>wad file to form a virus? In theory doom.exe could read certain data
>from doom1.wad then filter the data through itself to load something in
>memory?
Yes, but then you've got a trojan horse in your EXE and you still need
to distribute more than just the wadfile. If you stick to using the
DOOM.EXE as supplied on the install disks you should be ok: I don't
think it's Id's policy to put trojans in their games.
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