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From: CHGS02@vaxb.strath.ac.uk (A.M.MAIR)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Viraphobia (Re: AF/91 and April Foolism in general)
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Date: 19 Apr 91 10:08:00 GMT
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epan@jarthur.Claremont.edu (Eric C. Pan) writes:
> 	I am getting tire of all the people whose hair stand on ends
> at the mentioning of viruses.  I think April Fool's Day is a nice way
> to relax....
> 	I believe some people are too easily paniced by any mentioning
> of virus.  I am beginning to wonder if you will believe me if I claim
> that the human acquired immune deficiency syndrome, i.e. the HIV virus
> is spreading to computer. Gosh, I am tired of all the people who ask
> me to check their disks for viruses everytime they get a system error,
> or their drive makes a funny sound.
> 	Track Record so far? Out of 20 some people I helped, none of
> them have ANY VIRAL INFECTION. NONE! And yet everyday, someone would
> scream "Computer Virus" because they crashed their system, sometimes
> because they pushed their reset button.
> 	Is there someway we can stop this PARANOIA?  I think sueing
> anyone who bring up virus as a joke is definitely not a solution.

Consider yourself lucky not to be dealing with virus.  We now *have*
to scan publically used machines daily at this university.
Personally, I find "ping" or "stoned" (now being reported as
"stoned/swedish") being brought in on students' floppies.

Ann