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Re: VIRUS ALEART

To: "Paul Nelson (artworks@bigfoot.com)" <ya632@victoria.tc.ca>,
Subject: Re: VIRUS ALEART
From: "Larry B. Macy" <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:52:41 -0500
Gotta agree, but if everybody had Macs, they we would get all the virii and
they would be laughing at us.

Larry

On 1/6/01 8:26 AM, "Paul Nelson (artworks@bigfoot.com)"
<ya632@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> At 1:40 PM -0800 1/5/01, Dave Wood wrote:
>> I have to agree with Barney on the Pretty Park virus.   I received an e-mail
>> from one of my regular customers who sends attachments regularly and when I
>> opened it and didn't see anything, I called her and she let me know that she
>> had been notifying everyone in her address book about the virus.  It is
>> pretty easy for someone who is computer literate to remove, but could be a
>> bit rough for some people.  First you have to remove something from your
>> registry and then reboot and delete the program that causes the problem and
>> also changes it's name.  I was able to take care of mine right away, but
>> ended up fixing my customers via modem a couple of days later as she didn't
>> quite understand the directions on how to get rid of it.  If you are worried
>> about this virus look it up under "Pretty Park" on the McCaffey (sp?) or
>> Semantic (Norton) site and it explains what it does and how to get rid of
>> it.
> 
> If you had a Macintosh, you wouldn't have to worry about 98% of the
> viruses! < grin>
> Paul
> 

Larry Macy
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