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echo: virus_info
to: RICK COLLINS
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-03-23 20:54:00
subject: anticmos-a

On (20 Mar 97) Rick Collins wrote to Gordon Frey...
-=> 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!
 RC> You can't know that - because you don't know what was wrong with the
 RC> machine.  From the original post, it's not even known as fact that
 RC> she had an anti-CMOS infection.
 RC> You just committed the "newby" sin:  "If there's something wrong with
 RC> the machine, it must be a virus".
 RC> Shame on you. :-)
Yes but if it was only  anti-coms virus my opinion still stands.  
But if other items that where not mentioned were fixed then, of 
course she was not taken to the cleaners
Gordon
... Man, that lighting sounds clo#A#V!&#v?##v .... NO CARRIER
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