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This is from Edupage: Edupage, 31 August 1995 ****************************************************************** Edupage, 31 Aug 95. Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ****************************************************************** <SNIP> VIRUSES PLAGUE MICROSOFT PROGRAMS A strange virus is invading documents created with Microsoft's popular Word program. While it doesn't destroy files or cause serious damage, it changes files into templates, which can then be awkward to work with or transfer. Microsoft is distributing a fix that gets rid of the virus and inoculates against future contamination, available though help lines or at < http://www.microsoft.com >. (Wall Street Journal 30 Aug 95 B2) Meanwhile, some would-be Windows 95 users are complaining that they get stuck after the first disk. A Microsoft spokeswoman says that a virus already on the users' computers is at fault -- when it's activated by the first Windows 95 disk, it prevents any other disks from being installed. Details on how to fix the problem will be forthcoming, but meanwhile, users who install the program via floppy disk should use a virus checker to scan their systems first and set the write-protect tab on their program disks before installing them. (Houston Chronicle 31 Aug 95 C1) Yapha **************************************************************************** Yapha Nussbaum Brentwood School - West Campus School Library Media Specialist Los Angeles, CA yaphan@aol.com ****************************************************************************