hi
this must all seem pretty strange to you and it is...
ok, so here's what actually happened. my office 97 cd developed a crack on the inner hole and i was afraid it would get bigger and damage the cd, so i gave it to a friend (who has a cd writer) to make a backup of it.
unfortunately, he seems to be infected with the Parite virus and somehow ended up infecting all .exe files in the office 97 package.
but somehow, the setup file remained uninfected (dont know how
). i know this for sure because later on i scanned the cd and found a lot of exe files like word, access etc infected while the setup itself was clean.
so my guess is that when i executed the setup from the cd, it must have executed the infected exe files somehow and that ended up infecting windows and that is when i saw warnings pop up all over.
i am sure the infection came from this very source since i had scanned my computer with avast! just earlier in the day and everything was ok then.
so if you want to replicate this incident, you could take a copy of the office 97 package and infect all exe files other than the setup file, copy it on to a cd and then try running the setup on a win98se machine with avast! resident shield on high sensitivity.
pretty unusual huh!!
thnx and regards
satish