FW: Windows 7 compatibility issue

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Mon Oct 7 07:51:00 PDT 2013


On 10/7/2013 8:48 AM, Coleman, Don wrote:
> Walter:
>
> Below is the entire post.
>
> Long-time client with relatively new fP user suddenly cannot start her fP
> application.  When starting either my app. directly or even P.EXE,
> Windows 7 issues the following error:
>
> "This program or feature cannot start or run due to incompatibility with
> 64-bit versions of Windows"

The only time I have seen that is when trying to run MS-DOS apps on 64-bit 
Windows.

[...]
> To update this issue, the Windows 7 compatibility error was being caused
> by an apparent malware infection found on the server.

Perhaps the infection "works" by injecting an MS-DOS executable to the 
files?  (Which would still execute on 32-bit Windows systems.)

[...]

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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