dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) (10/24/89)
In Virus-L V2 #220, Jim Bradley asked if an application on a clean disk opened a data file infected with INIT 29, would the application then become infected. No. While INIT 29 is capable of infecting data files, the virus is "dormant" essentially. Code in INIT resources is only executed at startup, and no other point. Data files infected with INIT 29 only represent a threat to your system if they are kept in the same folder as your System and Finder files.