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to: KELLY SKINNER
from: CHRIS MADDOCK
date: 1997-02-12 06:36:00
subject: Npad & PRINTMAN Gone!

On 09 Feb at 14:10, Kelly Skinner of 3:632/309 wrote to All:
KS> I work at a TAFE college. While I was on hols several computers became 
KS> infected with new viruses. The only one our scan picked up was called 
Npad. 
KS> Does anyone know anything about this?
KS> Also, I was printing out a 5-page document in Word 6. Halfway through, it 
KS> stopped and a message appeared indicating that it couldn't find the 
printer 
KS> port! The task list showed no Print Manager running. Worse, when I tried 
to 
KS> open the Print Manager icon it said it couldn't find PRINTMAN.EXE or one 
of 
KS> its components.  Sure enough, a thourough search of the hard drive 
revealed 
KS> its absence.  It was  GONE!
What did you use to scan the machine.
Did you boot from a known clean write-protected floppy ??
Regards,
Chris Maddock
chrism@softtech.brisnet.org.au
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