#Stoned Virus
Ken,
Glad to read that you got out of a very bad situation.
About a year ago I bought a 386 with a HD from a store and after five days
of going crazy trying to get everything to work (I had intermittant
problems), I finally ran McAfee's SCAN & CLEAN to find and remove a
Jerusalem virus.
When I told the computer store people about it, they said, "Oh, we thought
we had gotten rid of that virus." It had been put onto the HD when they
formatt ed it. I told them how to scan & clean with MacAfee but they told
me that "it was impossible for them to check all their computers and all
their disks." Too much trouble, they said! So, I assume they've just been
continually sellinginfected computers.
They didn't feel any responsibilty for the problem. "The virus comes from
customers who bring it into the store, not from us" they told me. I keep
well away from there. I use VSHIELD as a TSR and I am very aware of the
virus potential now as I'm sure you are. Funny, many people who have not
been hit seem to regard viruses as something in the papers that only "other
people" getwr Keep clean,
Alec Jason