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I'll be like a nagging parent this morning. _Please_ do often "back up" your hard drives to protect yourselves from a _variety_ of non-viral hard disk risks. Various "data loss" problems happen to _all_ of us from time to time. Trust your mom and dad on this one, even if you've never believed us before! :-) Your Dad Loves 'Ya _____________________ On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, marjorie moorefield wrote: > 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. > **************************************************************************** > > 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". > > > **************************************************************************** > > > 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. >