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to: GORDON FREY
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-03-20 12:51:00
subject: anticmos-a

-=> Quoting Gordon Frey to Geoff Taylor <=-
-=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=<
gt> What is the story on "anticmos-a" please. There is lots of info
gt> around about other variants of anticmos, but nothing on this
gt> one. GF> clip........... Anyway the fem had problems accessing
gt> drives, so she runs to the computer service dept. of a large
gt> department store and a week later and three hundred bills poorer
gt> her ps1 had a clean bill of health. 
GF> There is only one answer...YES she was taken to the cleaners!
You can't know that - because you don't know what was wrong with the
machine.  From the original post, it's not even known as fact that
she had an anti-CMOS infection.
You just committed the "newby" sin:  "If there's something wrong with
the machine, it must be a virus".
Shame on you. :-)
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 20 Mar 12:53 
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