[comp.virus] Implied Loader Viruses

XRJDM@SCFVM.BITNET (Joe McMahon) (01/08/90)

Any resource which appears to be of an executable type which is found
in a "non-application" file will be flagged as an "implied loader".
You may have an invisible file called "PIC". Try looking at your disk
with ResEdit or DiskTop.

 --- Joe M.

trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) (01/12/90)

XRJDM@SCFVM.BITNET (Joe McMahon) writes:

>Any resource which appears to be of an executable type which is found
>in a "non-application" file will be flagged as an "implied loader".

I think this is VERY dangerous.  How do you define what an
"executable" file is?  How about a Hypercard Stack?  It is quite
possible for a document to have a legal "executable" resource, and any
false positive is going to result in the trashing of someone's data.

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