Re: Microsoft virus

[Yapha Nussbaum <YaphaN@AOL.COM>]

This is from Edupage:


Edupage, 31 August 1995
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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

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Yapha Nussbaum                               Brentwood School - West Campus
School Library Media Specialist              Los Angeles, CA
                               yaphan@aol.com
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