-=> Quoting Rick Collins to Gordon Frey <=-
 RC> You just committed the "newby" sin:  "If there's something wrong with
 RC> the machine, it must be a virus".
        Tech support at some very large (unnamed) computer companies must be
writing this into their support manuals.
        Rule #234: If you don't know what the problem is, it's a virus.
        I've actually called some of them to test this out, and you'd be 
uite
surprised what they say. One one system, a Micron system, the shadowing takes
1k out of the system memory, making it's available memory 639k (654,336), and
not 640k (655,360), and I called them and asked them why the system was 
cting
flaky (it turned out to be a bad TWAIN driver). They said that if it was
reading 639k, since it was an even 1024 bytes, it *WAS* a virus. Funny that
Dr. Solomon's 7.70 and F-Prot 2.26 didn't detect anything...
        I took that same problem to 4 other companies, for a chuckle, and 
any
of them had the same answer. I called Dr. Solomon's and they told me exactly
what it was (after some explaination of the symptoms).
        They're not as common as one would think, but I think with the advent
of the net, and the misnomer that the internet can infect your system, people
are very uninformed. VERY.
... Post-operative...A letter carrier.
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