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From: Christoph.Fischer.RY15@DKAUNI11
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Is this a virus? (PC)
Message-ID: <0008.8909251230.AA29228@ge.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 00:00:00 GMT
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Hi,
  we just had an inquiery about 4 strange files that appeared on a
Microsoft WORD installation. All 4 files are hidden system and readonly.
The filenames are:
  MWA.      MW.COD    MW.COM    MW.DAT
  256       47296     27902     24442  bytes file length

The file MWA is text and contains:

Copyright   1984 by Microsoft
Word Freedom Fighters:
Richard Brodie
Jabe Blumenthal
Jeff Harbers
Doug Klunder
Bruce Leak
Frank Liang
Carl McConnell
David Palmer
Chris Peters
Jeff Raikes
Tom Reeve
Ken Shapiro
Charles Simonyi
Greg Cox
Pat Th....

File dates showed a 1985 creation date

Has anyone seen this before?????? These guys there have a bunch
of problems, but we couldn't find a virus yet|

Chris and Torsten

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