[comp.virus] Debunking the WP virus :-)

MOTSUK@CUA.BITNET (12/12/90)

'lo there

I've read the recent message discussing the possiblity of a virus
causing multiple copies of a WordPerfect within itself.  I've seen this
many times here at CUA.  In all of the cases that I've seen, it was do
to operator error.

     It appears that people often retreive their document into itself
(for example after printing).  If a document begins or ends with more
than a screenful of blank lines, it looks like it is empty.  Users
then retreive their document and answer "yes" to the question
"Retreive into current document?"

     Repeating this will naturally create LARGE files!  :-)

                      Paul Motsuk
        motsuk@cua.bitnet   OR   motsuk@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu