FOT, I got a 'wake up' call (telephone) from Paul Richardson this morning.
BTW, Paul continues to plan to be at Mid-Ohio next June.
Paul relates that he has been getting some strange action on his computer, as
well. He shut his computer down until it can be looked at and wanted me to
pass this along to everyone. He will be back on line before he launches his
multi-month odyssey in his motorhome.
I am not that computer literate but my Macafee has not detected a virus,
although I have noticed some odd things. I typically delete most stuff from
people I do not recognized, especially if it has attachments.
(Yesterday I got a business note, to someone else, from a high school
classmate that has never sent me an e-mail personally, so I wonder he if has
got a virus)
Joe Alexander
> Well, I do know that my computer has passed the virus along to several people
> on the list, as well as others I have sent emails to in the past. I had no
> idea it was happening, of course, until it was too late. I noticed that my
> computer was sending emails on its own and I couldn't stop it.
> I suppose it was, in a sense, my fault, however, because I have not updated
> my
> antivirus definitions for quite a while. This virus, though, was first
> discovered on Nov. 24 (according to www.Norton.com) and I noticed it on Nov.
> 26.
> I am very sorry for any problems it may have caused anyone else, but I
> certainly didn't want it in the first place and passing it along was not of
> my doing. I spent most of the day on Monday, Nov. 26 getting the thing out
> of
> my computer at work. Norton AntiVirus could not delete or quarantine it but
> it did identify it and the infected files, so, being the old fart that I
> am, I
> rebooted in DOS mode and manually deleted the files that were infected. I
> knew that knowledge of DOS commands would come in handy someday.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Mike
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