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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: psu.questions,psu.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Jerusalem B virus found (long)
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.220915.11062@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 22:09:15 GMT
References: <89342.011130HJW2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <89342.011130HJW2@PSUVM.BITNET> HJW2@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>
>                   How I got Jerusalem virus in my computer
>                         A user's nightmare came true
>
>            (88 lines long, anything longer that would be VIRUS...)
>
>
>To make a short story long, let me go back to some day in late September....
<stuff deleted>

To be safe in the future, keep a bootable copy of your OS on floppy. Whenever
you suspect something funny, boot off the floppy and see if the problem goes
away. This could save a lot of headaches by not assuming bad hardware and
spending a lot of money.


Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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