-=> Mocking Cheryl Perry to All <=-
   
 CP> Has anyone come accros a virus that effects all Applications setup in
 CP> Windows? 
 CP> I encounter something that causes the Windows screen to flicker,
 CP> causes saved & entered text not be displayed on the screen.... even
 CP> though the saved text is there. 
 CP> How do I know?  I've clicked empty spaces on a dial up data list
 CP> (where my number list normally is displayed) and the dial up modem
 CP> screen shows up; lucky that the modem did not connect to the other
 CP> system. 
 CP> Non of the user stored information in windows is displayed....  even
 CP> when you key in info at the RUN option. 
 CP> All DOS programs work fine.
 CP> Has anyone ever come accross something like this and is it a virus?
what you've described are symptoms (possibly virus symptoms)...
the problem is that it's next to impossible to identify a virus just by
the symptoms, that's what anti-virus programs are for..
get a good scanner (f-prot, avp, findvirus, etc) and use that to
determine whether or not you have a virus...
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