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Re: The virus I got...
How come not everyone got it, did it depend on the x-mailer you are using?
At 02:59 AM 12/18/96 -0000, you wrote:
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> From: "Vincent Padua" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:41:57 -0800
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> There was an e-mail sent to the list that had attached to it a virus. Well
> lucky me I got. It was a .com file that apparently turns your files into
> directories. I can't boot into Win95 since it turned my HIMEM.SYS into a
> directory. So, I seem to have fixed that, but now it says "access denied"
> and then prompts me with C:\>. Did anyone else get it? Has anyone heard
> or fixed this virus?
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>Yes. It's a deadly mutation of the GOOD TIMES virus.
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>(People actually go to the trouble of stripping off the leading crap
>from the uuencoded part and then *run a program* from someone called
>[email protected]? Furrfu.)
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