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             The current VIRUS_INFO conference blacklist is:
                   Username             Banned until:
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                   1. Zvi Netiv         INDEFINITELY!
                   2. Dale Beaudoin     INDEFINITELY!
                   3. Pablo BarrĒn      INDEFINITELY!
                   4. Joe Sheeran       INDEFINITELY!
                   5. Andres Javier     INDEFINITELY!
                   6. Adam Colley       1 August 1997
                   7. Matt Hopper       1 August 1997
rod fewster
Moderator - VIRUS_INFO
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO    Ref: E5^J3295 Date: 05/31/97
From: MICHAEL PERRY                                         Time: 03:54pm
\/To: ROD FEWSTER                                         (Read 4 times)
Subj: R: ECHO RULES

   Hi,
 I believe that there is a virus on my sons computer. At times a message
appears on the screen about wanting some milk for his cereal. At other
times, there is a bunch of white spots that fly across the screen like a
screen blanker. All of the com, and exe files require more, and more time
to load, until a reboot. Then the first time that they are loaded after a
reboot, they seem to be normal. I tried to chnage the attrib to read only,
for all of the exe, and com files, but it won't let me do it. When I boot
with a write protected disk, any files of that disk continue to work fine,
but the files on the hard drive will act up after running any of them
once. We tried McGaffy's (sp) virus scanner, and tbav, and had no luck. I
have a feeling that it somehow got into the cmos registers, rom bios, or
something like that. We need help! Do you, or anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks for any help.
                       MIKE............
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO    Ref: E5^00006 Date: 05/31/97
From: ROD FEWSTER                                           Time: 02:48am
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Read the Rules, and pay particular attention to the Banned User List.
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