What does the WDEF virus do? (Mac)

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From: Jeff_Spitulnik
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 15:05

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I just discovered that a scribes disk (one that is used by many different
typists at different times to compile class notes) that crashed was
infected with the WDEF virus.  The Mac SE FDHD that I am using now had
trouble reading the disk and MacTools confirmed that there were many
damaged blocks.  After using Symantec's utilities to recover the files on
the disk, including the desktop, I checked to see if the file had the WDEF
virus.  It did.
I reformatted the scribe disk with no problems and verified that it was ok
after the reformatting.  Did it crash because of WDEF?  What's the latest
on what WDEF does?
Thanks!
   --Jeff

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