p1@rlyeh.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade) (12/23/90)
GOODWIN@SMCVAX.BITNET (Dave Goodwin) writes: > I have seen several mentions of possible virii on WordPerfect. Let me > add my two cents... Oh, how true. I remember a submission some time back that asked about files which, regardless of document length, only stored a few bytes of garbage. I recently had that happen, and I'm sure it's just a bug. The problem I encountered was that Word Perfect version 5.0, when saving to 4.2 format (one of the options under <ctrl>F5) will save an eight byte file *and erase the previous version, not just rename the file* if the "backup" options are turned on. Let me say that, while Word Perfect is *still* currently my editor (and disk manager:) of choice, the discovery of this bug lost me four daus work on the reviews of FPROT and Anti-Virus Plus. :(