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Most of normal DOS viruses won't work under MS-Windows.
The reason is that most resident viruses are not compatible
with the memory management in Windows. Also, many existing
viruses will damage Windows application if they try to
infect them as normal EXE files; thus alerting the user.
However, many resident viruses that infect .COM files only
will work perfectly in a DOS window. All non-resident .COM
infectors will be able to run and infect too. There are few
viruses present which are Windows specific i.e. these viruses
are compatible with the NewEXE format (e.g. NATAS, DieHard-II).
Any low level trapping of interrupt 13, as by boot sector or
partition viruses , can also affect Window operations particularly
if protected disk access (32BitDiskAccess = ON) is used.