HIT: virus? Datacomp

[Diane Ferbrache <dferbrache@renton.wednet.edu>]

Thanks to all who responded concerning the mysterious message "Welcome
to Datacomp" appearing on a teacher's computer.  A special thanks to Ed
-- it worked!  We sent the suspicious keyboard to the district tech
services people.  They were as stumped as we were.  Thanks again.


Subject: Re: TECH: virus?
    Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:10:52 -0600
   From: Edward Floden <techren@techren.com>
    To: dferbrache@renton.wednet.edu

At 14:23 -0800 on 1999.02.11, you wrote:

> One of my teachers has a strange thing happening.  If she leaves a
> window open in a document the words "Welcome to Datacomp" will appear
> wherever the cursor is.  It's quite disconcerting to find those words
> right in the middle of a list of math problems, for example.  In
> addition, if the cursor is left in the name label on an icon, the
words
> will appear within the name of the icon.  She is using a Power Mac
5500.
>
> We assume it's a virus, but our virus scan software didn't find it.
We
> would prefer not to reformat, but will if we have to.  Any ideas?

It's not a virus. It's a undocumented feature of her third-party
keyboard. See <http://www.macvirus.com/help/notavirus.html l>, at the
bottom of the page, under 'Welcome Datacomp'.

Ed.

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