Good morning everyone--hope you had a good night--THAT WOULD BE A
MIRACLE WOULDN'T IT??
I found the article from "The Herald" (Miami) dated Aug.23.1996.
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New York Times Service
SAN FRANCISCO--If all went well Thursday morning, your personal computer
ran just fine. But if you were among the unlucky few, a rare virus spread
over the Internet may have erased your hard drive.
The Hare virus, which was timed to do its destructive work Thursday and
again Sept. 22. was so named because it displays the message "Hare Krishna,
hare hare" on computer screens as it erases affected hard drives.
Jimmy Kuo, virus expert with McAfee Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., said
the virus could only affect users of Windows-based PC's who had downloaded
programs over the last two months from three Internet newsgrousp: alt.sex,
alt.cracks or alt.crackers.
"Media coverage has been way overblown" Kuo said. "I expect we're
talking about a handful of people affected", estimated between 100 to1,000
worldwide.
Viruses spread when people share disks with infected files or download
such programs off the Internet. Only program files can carry a virus. These
are files with a "com" or "exe" at the end. Text files cannot transmit viruses,
Kuo said.
In the last year ,however, a new and annoying type of virus has become
widespread. This virus attaches itself to word processing documents created
by versions 6 or 7 of the Microsoft Word program. Kuo said the Word viruses
attach themselves to files that have a "doc" suffix. These infected "doc"
files can travel to and from Macintosh and Windows computers, making
them easy to spread.
"These are the ones that are really widespread and really causing
problems", Kuo said, adding that "95 percent of the Fortune 500 companies
have them".
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I hate to admit this but--here I sit with a new HP ScanJet 4C & I haven't
figured
out how to use it yet---took me FOREVER just to install it!!!!!!
Boy!!!! are my fingers tired!!!!
As Ever,
Marjorie
Blessings to all , Marjorie L. Moorefield--
Internet Communications of America, Inc.
Blessings to all , Marjorie L. Moorefield--
Internet Communications of America, Inc.
Blessings to all , Marjorie L. Moorefield--
Internet Communications of America, Inc.
Blessings to all , Marjorie L. Moorefield--
Internet Communications of America, Inc.
