CompuServe Messages

Well, thanks everyone for the good advice. As it stands, I will be spending the better part of a day (interrupting a heavy work schedule) in order to backup 200Meg onto tapes, zap the virus, and rebuild the disk. I know it is naiive to expect the vendor who gave me the virus to compensate me in any way <g>, but I am irked that there seems to be a lack of responsibility on the part of organizations who make their living providing digital data to others but do not "keep a clean house". Frankly, at a minimum, he should cancel his invoice to me for his "services" (only about $50, but there IS a principle involved here). I would like to hear from others, both digital service providers and buyers, on this issue. Do you think that there needs to be an "ethic" evolved in such matters? What should it be? Ken Loss-Cutler