In the early days of computer viruses, there were not that many types of objects which could be infected. In fact, it was very rare to hear talk about infected objects - we spoke of infected boot and partition sectors as well as executable files, as those were the types of infections one would encounter. For a number of years, little else was at risk, as virus authors focused on the most common objects which could be infected. Of course, this was also before Windows became available and infectable Macros were not yet even a glimmer in the eyes of any malicious coder.
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